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Augustines confessions, designed to impart a religious or moral lesson instead of to exhibit or try to justify ones life. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the confessions of jean jacques rousseau complete. See all books authored by jeanjacques rousseau, including du contrat social, ou principes du droit politique, and a discourse on inequality, and more on. Histoire du precedent ecrit et reveries du promeneur solitaire introduction and notes by jean massin, club francais du livre, xxvi1188 pages. Success brought society to the doorstep of the man who claimed to abhor it. Complete in 12 books french edition kindle edition by jeanjacques rousseau, maurice leloir, barry, samuel william orson. Handsomely bound and finely illustrated edition of rousseaus confessions, the precursor of the modern autobiography. Aug 15, 2004 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Confessions is an autobiographical book by jeanjacques rousseau. French authorities and exile from france following the publication of emile.
His political philosophy influenced the progress of the enlightenment throughout europe, as well as aspects of the french revolution and the development of modern political, economic and educational thought. It obviously provides a more or less accurate account of much of the life of rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by voltaire, the encyclopedists, and rousseau. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Confessions is an autobiographical book by jean jacques rousseau. Wolfgang amadeus mozart, club francais du livre, xxii1276 pages. In modern times, it is often published with the title the confessions of jeanjacques rousseau in order to distinguish it from saint augustine s confessions.
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