Author : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026892976
Total Pages : 1069 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)
Book Synopsis Emile & Confessions by : Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Download or read book Emile & Confessions written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 1069 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "Emile & Confessions" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. "Emile, or On Education" or "Émile, or Treatise on Education" is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau considered it to be the "best and most important" of all his writings. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. Rousseau seeks to describe a system of education that would enable the natural man he identifies in The Social Contract (1762) to survive corrupt society. Emile is scarcely a detailed parenting guide but it does contain some specific advice on raising children. It is regarded by some as the first philosophy of education in Western culture to have a serious claim to completeness, as well as being one of the first Bildungsroman novels. "Confessions" is an autobiographical book which covers the first fifty-three years of Rousseau's life, up to 1765. It was completed in 1769, but not published until 1782, four years after Rousseau's death, even though Rousseau did read excerpts of his manuscript publicly at various salons and other meeting places. He wrote of his own life mainly in terms of his worldly experiences and personal feelings.