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Ten meditations written in the two years before Rousseau's death in 1778 provide an excellent introduction to the thinker's complex world, expressing in its full force the agony of isolation and alienation

Rousseau's last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms with his isolation and to find happiness in solitude and nature. The Reveries are an important complement to Rousseau's other philosophical... Read Full Overview

Rousseau's last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms with his isolation and to find happiness in solitude and nature. The Reveries are an important complement to Rousseau's other philosophical... Read Full Overview

Rousseau's last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms with his isolation and to find happiness in solitude and nature. The Reveries are an important complement to Rousseau's other philosophical... Read Full Overview

Me voici donc seul sur la terre, n'ayant plus de fr re, de prochain, d'ami, de soci t que moi-m me.Le plus sociable et le plus aimant des humains en a t proscrit par un accord unanime. Ils ont cherch dans les raffinements de leur haine quel tourment pouvait tre le plus cruel... Read Full Overview

Les R?veries du promeneur solitaire tiennent ? la fois de l'autobiographie et de la r?flexion philosophique : il constitue le dernier des ?crits de Rousseau, la partie finale ayant vraisemblablement ?t? con?ue quelques semaines avant sa mort, et l'oeuvre ?tant inachev?e.

Born on June 28, 1712, the Genevan philosopher, novelist and essayist Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most prominent and definitive minds of the Enlightenment. Self-taught, Rousseau dabbled in many fields, keeping journals of his interests in science, mathematics, music,... Read Full Overview

Fue la ltima de una serie de obras profundamente autobiogr ficas, junto con Las Confesiones y Di logos: Rousseau, juez de Jean-Jacques, compuestas en los ltimos a os de su vida. La inicia en Par s, probablemente a finales de 1776, y no tendr tiempo de terminarla, al morir... Read Full Overview

Born on June 28, 1712, in Geneva, the French philosopher, novelist and essayist Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most prominent and definitive minds of the Enlightenment. Self-taught, Rousseau dabbled in many fields, keeping journals of his interests in science, mathematics,... Read Full Overview

Les Reveries is a literary masterpiece but also a philosophical meditation. By asking himself "what am I, I who believe that all humans are born good?", Rousseau questions the very foundations of his "system". And sometimes, even more radically, he comes to doubt his own goodness... Read Full Overview

Depuis quinze ans et plus que je suis dans cette trange position, elle me para t encore un r ve. Je m'imagine toujours qu'une indigestion me tourmente, que je dors d'un mauvais sommeil et que je vais me r veiller bien soulag de ma peine en me retrouvant avec mes amis. Oui,... Read Full Overview

Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1786 edition. Extrait: ... laisse... Read Full Overview