Confessions: Introduction by P. N. Furbank (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

ISBN 10: 067940998X / ISBN 13: 9780679409984

Editore: Everyman's Library, 1992

Riguardo questo articolo

In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Codice articolo Q-067940998X

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Confessions: Introduction by P. N. Furbank (Everyman's Library Classics Series)
• Editore: Everyman's Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 067940998X
• ISBN 13: 9780679409984
• Rilegatura: hardcover
• Condizione: New

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto

 

Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena as diverse as the French Revolution, modern educational theory, and the contemporary environmental movement. This is reason enough to draw attention to his startlingly alive autobiography. But the Confessions is also among the greatest self-portraits in world literature -which suggests, even more than the impact of Rousseau's thought, the extent to which the very high opinion he had of himself was ultimately justified.

Informazioni sull?autore

P.N. Furbank is Visiting Professor in Literature at the Open University and author of E. M. Forster: A Life. Other publications include Samuel Butler: 1835-1902, Italo Svevo: the Man and the Writer, Unholy Pleasures: the Idea of Social Class and (with W. R. Owens) The Canonisation of Daniel Defoe.