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1. Jean Jacques Rousseau

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   Rousseau’s later years were marked by paranoia, intellectual feuds, and increasing isolation. His philosophical autobiography, Confessions) (written 1764–1770), shattered prevailing norms of biographical writing. While traditional memoirs focused on public accomplishments and sanitized personal failings, Rousseau sought an absolute, brutal honesty regarding his own contradictory nature and perceived persecutions by figures such as Voltaire and [Frederick the Great](/entries/f…