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...mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a word, I loved her too much to desire her... More of the amours of the twentysomething Jean-Jacques: here initiated into a strangely compromised manhood by his maman and perennial comforter - Was I happy? No: I felt I know-not-what invincible sadness which empoisoned my happiness, it seemed that I had committed...
Memoirs, Biography
...t trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.” Here again is the youthful, hero-worshipping Jean-Jacques – displaying an emotional immaturity that leads him into picaresque escapades in the company of transients and misfits, always ending in reunion with mother-surrogate Madame de Warens. In a literally unprecedente...
Memoirs
...“Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.” Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most remarkable and courageous works of introspection ever undertaken. Some readers may be repelled by his tendency to revel in embarrassing account...
Memoirs, Literature, Psychology
...This work presents Rousseau's belief in the profoundly transformational effects of the development of civilization on human nature, which Rousseau claims other political philosophers had failed to grasp. Specifically, before the onset of civili...
Essay/Short nonfiction, Politics, Philosophy
...Le Discours sur les sciences et les arts est un texte de Jean-Jacques Rousseau écrit dans le cadre du concours de l’Académe de Dijon de 1750. Lauréat du concours, Rousseau voit son essai fort commenté et lui doit sa célébrité, bien avant son opus magnum Du contrat social. Comme le ...
Philosophy
...The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized and administered. Rousseau sets forth, in his characteristically brazen and iconoclastic manner, the case for direc...
Philosophy, Politics
De l'inégalité parmi les hommes est un essai philosophique d'une centaine de pages environ, richement annoté par l'auteur, introduit par une lettre de louanges à la République de Genève ainsi que par une préface de l'auteur datée du 12 Juin 1754. Le texte, est amené par la question de l'Académie de Dijon : Quelle est l'origine de l'inégalité parmi les hommes et si elle est autorisée par la loi naturelle ? », sur laquelle repose l'essai entier. (Résumé par Wikipédia)...