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The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953)

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Year: 1953
Authors: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Pages: 614
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Only a few popular autobiographies existed before philosopher, author, and composer Jean-Jacques Rousseau published his Confessions. Rousseau wrote treatises on education and politics as well as novels and operas, and as one of the most influential and controversial of the Enlightenment thinkers, he inspired the leaders of the French Revolution. His memoir is regarded as the first modern autobiography, in which the writer defined his life mainly in terms of his worldly experiences and personal feelings.