Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 25,21 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1611682886
Book Description
Based on his doctrine of natural goodness, Rousseau intended the Confessions as a testing ground to explore his belief that, as Christopher Kelly writes, "people are to be measured by the depth and nature of their feelings." Re-created here in a meticulously documented new translation based on the definitive Pléiade edition, the work represents Rousseau's attempt to forge connections among his beliefs, his feelings, and his life. More than a "behind-the-scenes look at the private life of a public man," Kelly writes, "the Confessions is at the center of Rousseau's philosophical enterprise."