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Jean-Jacques Rousseau; restless genius.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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Date: 20060201
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau; restless genius.
Damrosch, Leo.
Houghton Mifflin
2005
566 pages
$30.00
Hardcover
PQ2043
Damrosch (literature, Harvard U.) offers a biography of Rousseau (1712-78), drawing on the many autobiographical sources that the French political philosopher produced to inform his readers precisely how his ideas emerged from his life experiences. And those experiences were indeed crucial, Damrosch points out, because Rousseau was a teen-age runaway who spend 20 years bumming through low-level jobs before he began ...
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