![]() ![]() ![]() In the end, Jean-Jacques was not only extraordinarily able to use his emotions to analyze human nature, but also he was a radical autobiographer at the limits of intransigence. Many features of the Rousseau's masterpiece are analyzed and systematically compared to our contemporary autoethnographic sensibility: the purposes which brought him to write an outstandingly detailed description of his life the fact that he acknowledges autobiography as the only source of true knowledge his obsession for sincerity and his strong will to disclose all the truth about his own life to his readers (included the dreadful things that he did) the authority that he assigned to the readers in deciding about the truthfulness of his tale his concern for the ethical issues and the care of the others and the therapeutic value that he recognized to the practice of writing about themselves. The paper examines the possibility that Rousseau was not only the creator of modern autobiography but also a forerunner of autoethnography. This is a two-voice autoethnographic dialogue about Rousseau's Confessions and their relevance for the contemporary autoethnograpy. ![]()
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