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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques] is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated fromthe world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt. The bookvividly illustrates the mixture of moods and motives that underlie the writing of autobiography: defiance and vulnerability, self-exploration and denial, passion, puzzlement, and detachment. Above all, Confessions is Rousseau's search, through every resource of language, to convey what he despairsof putting into words: the personal quality of one's own existence.

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Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques]

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192822758

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Poetry

Rating

3.62 / 5 (4,296 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14