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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
book by Leo Damrosch
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius is a biography by Leo Damrosch, published by Houghton Mifflin. The book depicts the life of eighteenth-century philosopher, writer, composer, and political theorist Jean-Jacques Rousseau, documenting his unorthodox rise from obscure beginnings to show how the orphaned and unschooled Rousseau rose from meandering journeyman to become one of the foremost thinkers in the Age of Enlightenment.
The book was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction.[2]
Narrative
The biography details Rousseau's life, explaining his tumultuous beginnings when his mother died shortly after he was born and his father abandoned him during his adolescence.
Rousseau spent the next years travelling around Europe and developed a relationship with Madame de Warens. With no formal education and penniless, he worked various jobs such as a valet, a diplomatic secretary, a teacher, a