Jean-Jacques Rousseau Restless Genius

Name: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Restless Genius
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ISBN: 9780618872022

ISBN-10: 0618872027

ISBN-13: 9780618872022

Edition: 2006

Authors: Leo Damrosch

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The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century literary scene as a provocateur whose works electrified readers. An autodidact who had not written anything of significance by age thirty, Rousseau seemed an unlikely candidate to become one of the most influential thinkers in history. Yet the power of his ideas is felt to this day in our political and social lives. In a masterly and definitive biography, Leo Damrosch traces the extraordinary life of Rousseau with novelistic verve. He presents Rousseau's books - The Social Contract, one of the greatest works on political theory; Emile, a groundbreaking treatise on education; and the Confessions, which…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/14/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.31" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Introduction



The Loneliness of a Gifted Child



The End of Innocence



""I Desired a Happiness of Which I Had No Idea""



Rousseau Finds a Mother



A Year of Wandering



In Maman""s House



The Idyll of Les Charmettes



Broadening Horizons: Lyon and Paris



The Masks of Venice



A Life Partner and a Guilty Secret



A Writer""s Apprenticeship



The Beginnings of Fame



Rousseau""s Originality



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