Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseaus Afhandling om ulighedens oprindelse og grundlæggelse blandt menneskene, skrevet til Académie de Dijon i 1754, er et forsøg på at besvare spørgsmålet "Hvad er ulighedens oprindelse blandt mennesker, og er den berettiget af naturens love?" Rousseau havde vundet en tidligere konkurrence med sin …

This landmark of the romantic movement not only greatly influenced the taste and morality of the eighteenth-century reading public but was also one of the most seminal and widely read literary works of its day. Seventy-two editions of the novel in French appeared between 1761 and 1800, and though Voltaire called its …

[This is Part 1 of a 2-part Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Frederick Davidson]The Confessions is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's landmark autobiography. Both brilliant and flawed, it is nonetheless beautifully written and remains one of the most moving human documents in all of literature. In this …