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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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1) The social contract

Author

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Series

Penguin classics L201

Pub. Date

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The landmark political treatise that refuted the so-called divine right of kings and established the principles of representative government "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." With these stirring words, Jean-Jacques Rousseau begins The Social Contract-the first shot in a battle of ideas that would set the stage for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. In the feverish days of the Enlightenment, Rousseau...

2) The Confessions

Author

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Series

Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading

Pub. Date

(1781)1996

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When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalised Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had a more profound impact on European thought. Rousseau left posterity a model of the reflective life - the solitary, uncompromising individual, the enemy of servitude and habit and the selfish egoist who dedicates his life to a particular ideal. The Confessions...