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When it was first published in 1781, The Confessions scandalized Europe with its emotional honesty and frank treatment of the author's sexual and intellectual development. Since then, it has had an increasing impact on European thought and industrialization over all. Rousseau left posterity for solidarity, becoming a voice for the unheard, including the disenfranchised and mother nature, much like our Americanized version Henry David Thoreau.The Confessions recreates the world in which Jaque progressed from incompetent engraver to grand success; his enthusiasm for experience, his love of nature, and his uncompromising character make him an ideal guide to eighteenth-century Europe. Picking up where Hobbes left off, Rousseau authored some of the most profound work ever written on the relation between the individual and the state.

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