Reveries of the Solitary Walker

Informationen zum Autor Russell Goulbourne has previously translated Diderot's The Nun for Oxford World's Classics. Klappentext These hours of solitude and meditation are the only time of the day when I am completely myself' Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the product of his final years of exile from the society that condemned his political and religious views. Returning to Paris the philosopher determines to keep a faithful record of the thoughts and ideas that come to him on his perambulations. Part reminiscence, part reflection, enlivened by anecdote and encounters, the Reveries form a kind of sequel to his Confessions, but they are more introspective and less defensive: Rousseau finds happiness in solitude, walks in nature, botanizing, and meditation. Writing an account of his walks becomes a means of achieving self-knowledge and safeguarding for himself the pleasure that others, he is convinced, seek to deny him. The Reveries, shaped by the unmediated nature of Rousseau's thought processes, give powerfully lyrical expression to a painfully tortured Zusammenfassung Part reminiscence, part meditation, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is Rousseau's last great work, the enduring testimony of an alienated person seeking self-knowledge. As he records his walks round Paris, he finds happiness in solitude and nature. The new translation includes an introduction and notes that explore the work and its contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Russell Goulbourne, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Assisted by: Russell Goulbourne (Translation), Russell (Professor of Early Modern French Literature Goulbourne (Translation), Goulbourne Russell (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Trade
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2011
• EAN: 9780199563272
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956327-2
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 192 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Oxford World's Classics; Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; French, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, France, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Autobiography: literary, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Autobiography: writers, Western philosophy: Enlightenment, C 1700 To C 1800