The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Entire

By Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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Title:	The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Entire
Author:	Rousseau, Jean Jacques
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Excerpt
Introduction: 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 Encyclopedists, and Rousseau himself a struggle to which, after many fierce intestine quarrels and sanguinary wars throughout Europe and America, has succeeded the prevalence of those more tolerant and rational principles by which the statesmen of our own day are actuated. On these matters, however, it is not our province to enlarge; nor is it necessary to furnish any detailed account of our author?s political, religious, and philosophic axioms and systems, his paradoxes and his errors in logic: these have been so long and so exhaustively disputed over by contending factions that little is left for even the most assiduous gleaner in the field. The inquirer will find, in Mr. John Money?s excellent work, the opinions of Rousseau reviewed succinctly and impartially. The ?Contrat Social?, the ?Lattres Ecrites de la Montagne?, and other treatises that once aroused fierce controversy, may therefore be left in the repose to which they have long been consigned, so far as the mass of mankind is concerned, though they must always form part of the library of the politician and the historian. One prefers to turn to the man Rousseau as he paints himself in the remarkable work before us.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Entire, 1 -- Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1 -- Introduction, 1 -- BOOK I, 5 -- BOOK II, 25 -- BOOK III, 45 -- BOOK IV, 65 -- BOOK V, 85 -- BOOK VI, 110 -- BOOK VII, 133 -- BOOK VIII, 171 -- BOOK IX, 198 -- BOOK X, 243 -- BOOK XI, 272 -- BOOK XII, 293