James Swenson On Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: On Jean-Jacques RousseauCondition: NewSubtitle: Considered as One of the First Authors of the RevolutionISBN-10: 0804735557EAN: 9780804735551ISBN: 9780804735551Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/01/2000Description: In order to grasp what it means to call Rousseau an "author" of the Revolution, as so many revolutionaries did, it is necessary to take full measure of the difficulties of literary interpretation to which Rousseau's work gives rise, particularly around such a charged term as "author." On Jean-Jacques Rousseau shows that Rousseau's texts consistently generate a division in their own reading, a division both designated and masked by the fiction of authorship. These divisions can occur successively—as in the narrative reversals and discontinuities characteristic of Rousseau's fictional and autobiographical works—or simultaneously, in the form of incompatible attempts to apply the lessons of a single text to an urgent historical moment. Given the structure of these texts, their "influence" can only occur in an equally paradoxical form. Rousseau's contribution to revolutionary thinking lies in his conceptualization of the constitutive function of misunderstanding and narrative discontinuity, in history and political action as well as in literature. Such misunderstandings and discontinuities are particularly well illustrated by the vicissitudes of the reading of Rousseau's texts during the revolutionary period, a moment when "readings" occurred as political programs. The Revolution enacted Rousseau precisely to the extent that revolutionaries could not agree on what action he called for. He is "one of the first authors of the Revolution" not because he was one of its causes, but because he provided the terms in which the logic of the revolutionary process becomes intelligible.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 590gAuthor: James SwensonGenre: HistoryBook Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, AestheticsRelease Year: 2000 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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