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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius

Door Leopold Damrosch

Categorie	Filosofie
Boeknummer	#399186-XN26
Titel	Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
Auteur	Damrosch, Leopold
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Boston/New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0618446966
ISBN13	9780618446964
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original black boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, some illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	The extraordinary life of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the eighteenth-century literary genius who changed the course of history, traced with novelistic verve. Motherless child, failed apprentice, autodidact, impossibly odd lover, Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century scene as a literary provocateur whose works electrified readers from the start. Rousseau's impact on American social and political thought remains deep, wide, and, to some, even infuriating. Leo Damrosch beautifully mines Rousseau's books--The Social Contract, one of the greatest works on political theory and a direct influence on the French and American revolutions; Emile, a groundbreaking treatise on education; and the Confessions, which created the genre of introspective autobiography--as works st... (Lees verder)ill uncannily alive and provocative to us today. Damrosch's triumph is to integrate the story of Rousseau's extraordinarily original writings with the tumultuous life that produced them. Rousseau's own words and those of people who knew him help create an accessible, vivid portrait of a questing man whose strangeness--as punishing and punished lover, difficult friend, and father who famously consigned his infant children to a foundling home--still fascinates. This, the first single-volume biography of Rousseau in English, is as masterfully written as it is definitive. Leo Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. He has written widely on eighteenth-century writers.
Pagina's	566
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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