Reveries of the Solitary Walker

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Ten meditations written in the two years before Rousseau’s death in 1778 provide an excellent introduction to the thinker’s complex world, expressing in its full force the agony of isolation and alienation

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Tenth WalkJean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) is the author of numerous political and philosophical texts as well as entries on music for Diderot’s Encyclopédie and the novels La nouvelle Héloïse and Émile.GB