(Summary by Martin Geeson)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. This 1903 edition fails to appreciate the humorous strangeness of the passage and removes it to protect the reader. In a literally unprecedented gesture of self-revelation, Rousseau opens Volume 3 exposing himself indecently in dark alleyways. Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: 9780679409984 : Books Rousseau's ideas have influenced almost every major political development of the last two hundred years, and are crucial to an understanding of phenomena. 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.
“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.” LibriVox recording of Confessions, volumes 3and 4, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Rousseau begins his Confessions by claiming that he is about to embark on an enterprise never before attempted: to present a self-portrait that is in every way.
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