The Confessions / Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Dover thrift editionsPublisher: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, 1996Description: xviii, 645 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781853264658 (paperback)Uniform titles: Confessions. English Subject(s): Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 | Authors, French -- 18th century -- Biography | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LiteraryDDC classification: 848.509 LOC classification: PQ2036 | .A5 2014Online resources: Publisher description | Contributor biographical information Summary: "Only a few popular autobiographies existed before philosopher, author, and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) published his Confessions. Rousseau wrote treatises on education and politics as well as novels and operas, and as one of the most influential and controversial of the Enlightenment thinkers, he inspired the leaders of the French Revolution. His memoir is regarded as the first modern autobiography, in which the writer defined his life mainly in terms of his worldly experiences and personal feelings. These memoirs constitute the main source of Rousseau's reputation as a leader in the transition from eighteenth-century reason to nineteenth-century romanticism. His emphasis on the effects of childhood experiences anticipates the psychology of Sigmund Freud, and his conviction that the individual is worthy of account forms a major contribution to progressive social and political thought. The book has inspired many imitations in autobiography, fiction, and poetry, and it has influenced the works of Proust, Goethe, Tolstoy, and countless others"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Only a few popular autobiographies existed before philosopher, author, and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) published his Confessions. Rousseau wrote treatises on education and politics as well as novels and operas, and as one of the most influential and controversial of the Enlightenment thinkers, he inspired the leaders of the French Revolution. His memoir is regarded as the first modern autobiography, in which the writer defined his life mainly in terms of his worldly experiences and personal feelings. These memoirs constitute the main source of Rousseau's reputation as a leader in the transition from eighteenth-century reason to nineteenth-century romanticism. His emphasis on the effects of childhood experiences anticipates the psychology of Sigmund Freud, and his conviction that the individual is worthy of account forms a major contribution to progressive social and political thought. The book has inspired many imitations in autobiography, fiction, and poetry, and it has influenced the works of Proust, Goethe, Tolstoy, and countless others"-- Provided by publisher.
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