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On Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution

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Description for On Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution Paperback. In order to grasp what it means to call Rousseau an author of the Revolution, it is necessary to take full measure of the difficulties of literary interpretation to which Rousseau's work gives rise. This is a deconstructive analysis of Rousseau as an "author" of the French Revolution. Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2ADF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Series
Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804738644
SKU
V9780804738644
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About James Swenson
James Swenson is Assistant Professor of French at Rutgers University.

Reviews for On Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution
"This book is a tour de force, carefully argued, erudite, beautifully written, and strikingly original. It offers a new understanding about an idea that is almost a cliché for historians of the French Revolution—that Rousseau's political writings somehow 'caused' the revolution. Swenson problematizes this causality . . . by looking at Rousseau's entire oeuvre."—Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study "Recent ... Read more

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