Jean-Jacques Rousseau : Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch (2007, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100618872027

ISBN-139780618872022

eBay Product ID (ePID)57065806

Product Key Features

Book TitleJean-Jacques Rousseau : Restless Genius

Number of Pages576 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPhilosophers, European / French, Individual Philosophers, Educators

Publication Year2007

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism, Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorLeo Damrosch

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight22 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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ReviewsTraced with novelistic verve, "Jean-Jacques Rousseau" "provides an ideal introduction to both this complex man and his troubling ideas. It is a important book, but also a provocative and exceptionally entertaining one.", "These pages...bring to astonishing life...an impossible man whose books made modern life possible....Immensely enjoyable and fast-paced." --Louis Menand, author of The Metaphysical Club and American Studies, "These pages...bring to astonishing life...an impossible man whose books made modern life possible....Immensely enjoyable and fast-paced." --Louis Menand, author of The Metaphysical Club and American Studies "An incisive, accessible, and sensitive portrait . . . Damrosch has performed a signal service." Publishers Weekly "The erratic, inventive urgency of the life is all here. A delight to read." --Stacy Schiff The New York Times Book Review

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal848/.509 B

SynopsisIn this first single-volume English-language biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Damrosch mines the influential philosophers letters, memoirs, and writings to expose the eccentricities of a man who prefigured the modern mind., The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century literary scene as a provocateur whose works electrified readers. An autodidact who had not written anything of significance by age thirty, Rousseau seemed an unlikely candidate to become one of the most influential thinkers in history. Yet the power of his ideas is felt to this day in our political and social lives. In a masterly and definitive biography, Leo Damrosch traces the extraordinary life of Rousseau with novelistic verve. He presents Rousseau's books -- The Social Contract, one of the greatest works on political theory; Emile, a groundbreaking treatise on education; and the Confessions, which created the genre of introspective autobiography -- as works uncannily alive and provocative even today. Jean-Jacques Rousseau offers a vivid portrait of the visionary's tumultuous life.