JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Du contrat social

Jean-Jacques Rousseau es quizá más conocido por sus obras filosóficas ( " El contrato social " , el " Emilio " o los " Discursos " ) que por su producción literaria. Incluso él mismo se declaró adversario de la literatura. Sin embargo, en " La nueva Eloísa " , un Rousseau sorprendentemente atrevido reúne e...

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Unabridged republication as published in French and English 1910.

Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time-must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism were rallying for their last struggle against the modern spirit, chiefly represented by Voltaire, the...

Jean Jacques Rousseau was born at Geneva, June 28, 1712, the son of a watchmaker of French origin. His education was irregular, and though he tried many professions-including engraving, music, and teaching-he found it difficult to support himself in any of them. The discovery of his talent as a writer came with the winning of a prize offered by ...

Rousseau ne voulait pas qu'un portrait de lui figure en tête de ses Ouvres. Son vrai portrait, le seul qui ne mentirait pas, c'est en lisant ses Confessions qu'on l'aurait sous les yeux : Je veux montrer à mes semblables un homme dans toute la vérité de la nature ; et cet homme, ce sera moi. Mais quelle identité assigner à ce moi qui déclare : J...

Este livro influenciou diretamente a Revolução Francesa e os rumos da história. Impactante ensaio, O contrato social ou Princípios de Direito político causou furor desde sua publicação, em 1762, e eternizou-se como um dos principais textos fundadores do Estado moderno. Nele, o filósofo iluminista, romancista, teórico e compositor suíço Jean-Jac...