The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the
eighteenth-century literary scene as a provocateur whose works
electrified readers. An autodidact who had not written anything of
significance by age thirty, Rousseau seemed an unlikely candidate
to become one of the most influential thinkers in history. Yet the
power of his ideas is felt to this day in our political and social
lives.
In a masterly and definitive biography, Leo Damrosch traces the
extraordinary life of Rousseau with novelistic verve. He presents
Rousseau's books -- The Social Contract, one of the greatest works
on political theory; Emile, a groundbreaking treatise on education;
and the Confessions, which created the genre of introspective
autobiography -- as works uncannily alive and provocative even
today. Jean-Jacques Rousseau offers a vivid portrait of the
visionary's tumultuous life.
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