by Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140440331
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«The Confessions» is the autobiography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (608 pages, in English).
Considered the first modern autobiography, the work covers the first fifty-three years of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: his childhood, the development of his philosophical and political thought, and his exile after the publication of Emile. With great psychological insight, it denounces the inequality that civilized society brings with it.
Work originally published in French as «Les Confessions» in 1773; this edition offers the text in English.
Recommended for readers interested in Enlightenment philosophy, autobiography, and classics of world literature.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, philosophe, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educational thought.
