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The Confessions
Rousseau recounts his life with unusual candor, exploring childhood, education, relationships, wrongdoing, shame, self-justification, and the formation of his identity
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Rousseau recounts his life with unusual candor, exploring childhood, education, relationships, wrongdoing, shame, self-justification, and the formation of his identity
Rousseau asks what could make political authority legitimate, developing ideas about the social contract, popular sovereignty, freedom, and the general will
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