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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: La Carta a D'Alambert constituye, sin duda, el escrito polemico mas conocido y difundido de Rousseau. El mismo confiesa que sentia predileccion por este texto. Y, sin embargo, fue escrito en condiciones fisicas y animicas muy desfavorables...read more

Product Description: Jean-Jacques Rousseau puso en Las confesiones los cimientos de la moderna autobiografía. Las confesiones van más allá de unas simples memorias al convertir Rousseau al lector en «juez» de los hechos de su vida. Expone su testimonio sobre los elementos biográficos de un hombre que quiere desnudar su alma y su existencia hasta tal punto que está seguro de que no tendrá nunca imitadores...read more

Product Description: Autor de escritos politicos capitales para entender el mundo que iba a traer la Revolucion Francesa, como Del contrato social. DIscursos, asi como del tratado filosofico sobre la bondad natural del hombre y su sistema educativo (Emilio, o De la educacion), Jean-Jacques Rousseau puso en el presente libro los cimientos de la moderna autobiografia...read more

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One of the towering figures of the Enlightenment was Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose works were essential to the ideological developments of the 18th century.  The prestige of French literature in the 18th century resides especially in its revolutionary character; while the writers of the previous century used to support the social order through their works and showed sympathy and even attempted to explain the political order of the time, in the 18th century, art, literature, philosophy and science all contribute actively and fiercely to the fight against the absolutist monarch and his regime. While this was a current manifesting all throughout Europe, there were differences in practice, especially between close countries (as was the case of England and France). Rousseau's life can best be described as a constant conflict, whether it was conflict with his wife, his employers, his colleagues and even his friends. However, such situations led to the birth of masterpieces which have been influencing the advancement of critical thinking up to the present day. The roots of his personality may be found in his childhood, as the death of his mother and the fleeing of his older brother left him with a father who impressed upon him the love for studying and reading but could not cover for the other needs of a child. Thus, the absence of a family would affect his later relations with people, and it would even compel Rousseau to abandon all his five children in an orphanage, an ironic fact given that he published a treaty on education.It’s quite likely that Rousseau realized the nature of the battles he fought. In fact, towards the end of his life, whether he was motivated by repentance or simply a need to advance his work, he provided his readers with explanations of all his actions and ideas. The “Confessions” were published after his death, and it is now considered by many to round his life’s work into a single opus. 

One of the towering figures of the Enlightenment was Jean Jacques Rousseau, whose works were essential to the ideological developments of the 18th century.  The prestige of French literature in the 18th century resides especially in its revolutionary character; while the writers of the previous century used to support the social order through their works and showed sympathy and even attempted to explain the political order of the time, in the 18th century, art, literature, philosophy and science all contribute actively and fiercely to the fight against the absolutist monarch and his regime. While this was a current manifesting all throughout Europe, there were differences in practice, especially between close countries (as was the case of England and France). Rousseau's life can best be described as a constant conflict, whether it was conflict with his wife, his employers, his colleagues and even his friends. However, such situations led to the birth of masterpieces which have been influencing the advancement of critical thinking up to the present day. The roots of his personality may be found in his childhood, as the death of his mother and the fleeing of his older brother left him with a father who impressed upon him the love for studying and reading but could not cover for the other needs of a child. Thus, the absence of a family would affect his later relations with people, and it would even compel Rousseau to abandon all his five children in an orphanage, an ironic fact given that he published a treaty on education.It’s quite likely that Rousseau realized the nature of the battles he fought. In fact, towards the end of his life, whether he was motivated by repentance or simply a need to advance his work, he provided his readers with explanations of all his actions and ideas. The “Confessions” were published after his death, and it is now considered by many to round his life’s work into a single opus. 

Product Description: The Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It is divided into two parts, each consisting of six books. Rousseau's work is notable as one of the first major autobiographies. "I have resolved on an enterprise which has no precedent, and which, once complete, will have no imitator...read more

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Product Description: ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type...read more

Product Description: ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type...read more

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An editor for The Washington Post highlights the legal wrangling involved in saving or ending the lives of death-row inmates and portrays the morbid lives of the inmates awaiting the ultimate punishment. Reprint. NYT.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Ginebra, 28 de junio de 1712-Ermenonville, 2 de julio de 1778) fue un polímata suizo francófono. Fue a la vez escritor, filósofo, músico, botánico y naturalista, y aunque definido como un ilustrado, presentó profundas contradicciones que lo separaron de los principales representantes de la Ilustración...read more

Product Description: Se dice que este libro fue uno de los muchos incitadores de la Revolución francesa por sus ideas políticas. Bajo la teoría del contrato social se fundamenta buena parte de la filosofía liberal, en especial el liberalismo clásico por su visión filosófica del individuo como fundamental, que luego decide vivir en sociedad por lo que necesita del Estado de Derecho que asegure las libertades para poder convivir...read more