Practice question · Numerical answer
How many books do Rousseau’s Confessions contain in total?
Hints
- Two parts of equal length.
- Six books in each of two parts.
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12
Why
Twelve, in two parts of six. Rousseau wrote them between 1765 and 1770 and they appeared posthumously, the first part in 1782 and the second in 1789, by which time the Revolution had made his account of natural goodness and social corruption political rather than personal.
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