Confessions jj rousseau7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() He advocated idleness in the age of Adam Smith. Imagination was out of fashion he was tiptoeing around the as-yet-undiscovered unconscious. As Leo Damrosch put it, Rousseau was after all understood to be 'describing a state of nature that never existed, a political system that never could exist and an educational scheme that never should exist.' Social inequality, the will of the people, inalienable rights were meaningless concepts when Rousseau began ranting about them. In his own day he was provocative but also outlandish. " Confessions was published only posthumously it was some time before Rousseau's ideas seeped into the drinking water. Rare first edition in English of Rousseau’s magnificent Confessions and Reveries (its sequel and complement), considered among Rousseau’s finest works, in contemporary marbled boards. Housed together in a custom chemise and clamshell box. 12mo, contemporary half tan calf, marbled boards, raised bands pp. ![]() Rousseau: With the Reveries of the Solitary Walker. “I HAVE RESOLVED ON AN ENTERPRISE WHICH HAS NO PRECEDENT, AND WHICH, ONCE COMPLETE, WILL HAVE NO IMITATION”: RARE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH OF ROUSSEAU’S CONFESSIONS, 1783 ![]()
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