Rousseau Jean-Jacques

In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persecuted by governments and alienated from the world of modern civilization. In trying to explain who he was and how he came to be the object of others' admiration and abuse, Rousseau analyses with unique insight the relationship between an elusive but essential inner self and the variety of social identities he was led to adopt.

Published four years after Rousseau’s death, Confessions is a remarkably frank and honest self-portrait, described by Rousseau as ‘the history of my soul’. From his idyllic youth in the Swiss mountains, to his career as a composer in Paris and his abandonment of his children, Rousseau lays bare his entire life with preternatural honesty.

Audiobook 300 Quotes of French Philosophy: Montaigne, Rousseau, Voltaire. Become familiar with the most important French philosophers, Michel de Montaigne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire. These figures have shaped Western philosophy; delve deep into their works and thoughts with a selection of the essential quotes introducing their major ideas and delineating the structure of their work with clarity.

Rozprava o původu a základech nerovnosti mezi lidmi (1755) tvoří spolu se Společenskou smlouvou (1762) jádro Rousseauovy politické teorie, která zásadním způsobem ovlivnila novověké politické myšlení a revoluce 18. století. Toto vydání přináší první úplný překlad Rozpravy o nerovnosti (včetně dosud česky neotištěných doprovodných textů) a po více než sedmdesáti letech i nový překlad Společenské smlouvy. Oba texty doplňuje bohatý komentář, který spisy zasazuje jak do kontextu autorova života a díla, tak do soudobého historického a politického kontextu, čímž umožňuje lépe pochopit originalitu Rousseauova myšlení a jeho význam pro současnost.