Paul de Man's Allegories of Reading concludes with an essay called "Excuses" analyzing an episode from this philosopher's autobiography in which he wrongly implicates the servant girl Marion (mah-ree-"OWN") in the the7t of a ribbon.
Heinrich Mann's essay "Geist und Tat" begins with the assertion that this thinker has had "the greatest, most palpable success" out of everyone who ever wrote. Two of his major works were translated into English by Maurice Cranston, whose three-volume biography of this man concludes with The Solitary Self. Paul de Man's Allegories of Reading concludes with an essay called "Excuses" analyzing an episode from this philosopher's autobiography in which he wrongly implicates the servant girl Marion (mah-ree-"OWN") in the the7t of a ribbon. Voltaire uncharacteristically admired a controversial anti-religious polemic appearing in the fourth book of this thinker's educational treatise framed as a Bildungsroman. This author of the "Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar" wrote a book on political theory proposing individual submission to the "general will." For 10 points, name this Swiss-French philosopher who wrote Emile, Confessions, and The Social Contract.
Heinrich Mann's essay "Geist und Tat" begins with the assertion that this thinker has had "the greatest, most palpable success" out of everyone who ever wrote.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau