The Confessions of JeanJacques Rousseau The Confessions of JeanJacques Rousseau

The Confessions of JeanJacques Rousseau

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Publisher Description

Published four years after Rousseau’s death, Confessions is a remarkably frank and honest selfportrait, described by Rousseau as ‘the history of my soul’. From his idyllic youth in the Swiss mountains, to his career as a composer in Paris and his abandonment of his children, Rousseau lays bare his entire life with preternatural honesty. He relates his scandals, follies, jealousies, sexual exploits and unrequited loves, as well as the torrential events surrounding his controversial works Discourses, E?mile and The Social Contract, which led to his persecution and wanderings in exile. Confessions provides an invaluable window into the making of the man, the society he lived in, and the development of ideas that would have a profound influence on philosophers and political theorists to come.

GENRE
Biography
NARRATOR
JK
Jonathan Keeble
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
29:06
hr min
RELEASED
2020
1 July
PUBLISHER
Naxos Audiobooks
SIZE
1.5
GB