Article: Le chant de l'origine: La Memoire et le temps dans les 'Confessions' de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.(Review)

Article: Confronting our contradictions; Listeners were shocked when ...
The Christian Science Monitor;  December 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... much else) in his "Confessions," while concluding ... many would finish: Rousseau's intentions as a ... people. Late in life Rousseau was given to reading ... reading was of the "Confessions" in 1771. "Most listeners ... Breaking the silence, Rousseau said: "I declare openly ...

Article: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Confessions.(Book Review)
Biography;  March 22, 2003 ;     350 words ...Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Edition established and presented ... of nature; I shall be this man." Rousseau knew very well he was not the first ... forward this challenge. However, his confessions, written "from the inside, from ...

Article: Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book One: ...
Great Works of Literature;      700+ words ... ... numberless throng of my fellow-mortals; let them listen to my Confessions, let them lament at my unworthiness, let them blush at my ... better than that man. I was born at Geneva in 1712, of Isaac Rousseau and Susan Bernard, citizens. A very moderate estate, which ...

Article: Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Ten: ...
Great Works of Literature;      700+ words ... ... of a new agreement recently made to that effect. (Note by Rousseau, not in Paris MS.)] Since I had shaken off the yoke of ... and was formerly intimately acquainted with Jean Baptiste Rousseau. Holding in as much esteem the memory of that illustrious ...

Article: Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Introduction
Great Works of Literature;      279 words ... ... least bear to yourself the noble testimony of having been good and generous when you might have been evil and revengeful; if indeed evil done to a man who himself has never done or sought to do evil can bear the name of revenge. J. J. Rousseau

Article: Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Eight: ...
Great Works of Literature;      700+ words ... ... Francoeur, who, when they were very young, went together from house to house playing on the violin, were so called. (Note by Rousseau.)] The part to which I had been most attentive, and in which I had kept at the greatest distance from the common track ...

Article: Confessions Of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Book Nine: ...
Great Works of Literature;      700+ words ... ... was entirely his victim. Mean vengeance is unworthy of my heart, and hatred never takes the least root in it. (Note by Rousseau, not in Paris MS.)] I expected that Grimm, confused by my condescension and advances, would receive me with open arms ...