Solitary Self

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Exile and Adversity

Автор: Maurice Cranston

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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In this final volume of his biographical trilogy, Maurice Cranston traces the last tempestuous years...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Maurice Cranston

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1999

страници

267

EAN

9780226118666

ISBN

0226118665

Enbook ID

04543675

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

430

Размери

152 x 231 x 21

Пълно описание

In this final volume of his biographical trilogy, Maurice Cranston traces the last tempestuous years of Rousseau's life. Unerringly faithful to the evidence, Cranston's narrative allows Rousseau and his contemporaries to speak with renewed vigor and undistorted voice. From his brilliant authorship of the "Confessions," the "Dialogues," and the "Reveries" to his ill-fated sojourn in Britain, from his infamous public quarrel with David Hume to his clandestine return to France, from his unsettled wanderings to his eventual death in 1778 - these and other critical events in Rousseau's fading career are detailed in this balanced portrait. In 1762, with the condemnation of "Emile" and "The Social Contract," harried by both church and state, Jean-Jacques Rousseau fled Paris, seeking refuge in Switzerland, Prussia, and England. Deemed a social outcast and beset with feelings of persecution and abuse, not wholly unwarranted, the philosopher turned in despair to the production of autobiographical works intended to reveal his essential innocence and integrity. Through this bitter introspection, Rousseau transformed his misery and solitude into some of the most enduring literature of his time.

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