Bekentenissen
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789025363772 (9025363776)
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep
Pages no: 788
Edition language: Dutch
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Philosophy,
France,
French Literature,
18th Century
Can you love a man who purchases a small girl to be raised by him and his friend for sexual purposes. My answer to that question is no but one can love or at least like-quite-a-bit his book.Rousseau is maybe not a great philosopher but was certainly a good one. His confessions reveal him as a trul...
The jacket explains that this book was revolutionary when it was published, but it didn't move me at all. I found him a bit of a whinger, somewhat unsympathetic and naieve. The opening section was interesting, exploring how his character had been shaped by experiences when young, but it fell awfuly ...
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