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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 ...
Books. Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Penguin Publishing Group, Nov 22, 1979 - Biography & Autobiography - 154 pages. After a period of forced exile and solitary wandering brought about by his radical views on religion and politics, Jean-Jacques Rousseau returned to Paris in 1770. Here, in the last two years of his life ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hackett Publishing, Jan 1, 1992 - Philosophy - 266 pages. First published posthumously in 1782 from an unfinished manuscript, The Reveries of the Solitary Walker continues Rousseau's exploration of the soul in the form of a final meditation on self-understanding and isolation. This accurate and graceful translation by ...
Second Walk. HAVING resolved to describe the habitual state of my soul, in the most unaccountable situation that ever mortal experienced, I can find no manner so simple and effectual, to execute this purpose, as to keep a faithful register of my solitary walks, and the reveries which accompany them; when I find my mind entirely free, and suffer my ideas to follow their bent, without resistance ...
Abstract. 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 ...
Reveries of the Solitary Walker. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a paradoxical thinker, a key source both of the radical political program of the French Revolution and of the romantic movement’s rejection of city life and civic engagement in favor of nature, solitude, and simplicity. Rousseau the solitary dreamer is most on display in his last book ...
The Solitary Walker’s condition is far worse than that of lonely isolation. He proceeds to describe an experience of feeling, as if in a kind of dream (rêve, not quite a nightmare 2 Close) that “for fifteen years and more” 3 Close he has been the victim, for reasons he has never been able to understand, 4 Close of a fiendishly cruel and unjust psychological torture carried out on a ...
