Introducing Rousseau

Informationen zum Autor Oscar Zárate (born 1942) is an Argentine comic book artist and illustrator. Zarate studied architecture and had a successful career in advertising in Argentina. He moved to Europe in 1971 and began to work in earnest as an illustrator. He has drawn for the UK comics magazine Crisis. In the Introducing... and ...For Beginners book series he illustrated texts written by Richard Appignanesi, Alexei Sayle, Dylan Evans, J P McEvoy, Angus Gellatly and Rupert Woodfin. He is perhaps best known in the United States as the artist for the graphic novel A Small Killing written by Alan Moore, the a full length story about a once idealistic advertising executive haunted by his boyhood self. Klappentext Musician, poet, novelist and botanist, but above all, a philosopher who denied being one, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first to ask: "What is the value of civilization?” His answer shocked Enlightenment contemporaries and still challenges us today. Introducing Rousseau guides us through a turbulent life of lost innocence, persecution, and paranoia. Zusammenfassung Illustrated guide to the crucial French philosopher who denied bring a philosopher at all

Product details

• Authors: Dave Robinson, Robinson Dave, Oscar Zarate
• Assisted by: Oscar Zarate (Illustration), Zarate Oscar (Illustration)
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.05.2011
• EAN: 9781848312128
• ISBN: 978-1-84831-212-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 169 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Introducing . . .; Introducing...; Introducing (Icon Books); Graphic Guides
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, STUDY AIDS / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / General, Philosophy, HISTORY / Europe / France, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, ANF:Philosophy, Biography & Memoir, Graphic Guides: Key Figures, Graphic Guides: Philosophy & Ethics