Jean Jacques Rousseau - Esprit, Maximes et Principes - 1764

Rare edition of an exciting collection of thoughts and fragments that condense the moral and political philosophy of the author into a brief and aphoristic form.

The work gathers maxims on human nature, society, freedom, and education, aiming to extract universal principles from experience and reflection.

Rousseau affirms the primacy of conscience and virtue over social conventions, emphasizing the need to return to simplicity and authenticity against corruption. The style is concise, incisive, and often paradoxical, intended to strike the mind and provoke meditation.

This collection illustrates Rousseau's desire to propose practical wisdom and natural morality, complementing his major treaties, and reflects the importance given to the fragment and the maxim as literary forms of the Enlightenment.

Jean Jacques Rousseau - Spirit, Maxims, and Principles - 1764 - Libraires Associés
24-444 Pages

Good condition of the binding, book in its original full brown marbled calf, showing signs of wear, worn corners and headbands, heavily rubbed covers, marbled edges, smooth decorated spine, gilt titling.

Good interior condition, foxing, pretty endbands, marbled endpapers, an old handwritten ex-libris, and handwritten inscriptions on the endpapers.

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