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Reframing Rousseau's Levite d'Ephraim - The Hebrew Bible, Hospitality, and Modern Identity (Paperback)
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Reframing Rousseau's Levite d'Ephraim - The Hebrew Bible, Hospitality, and Modern Identity (Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2021:05
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Le Levite d'Ephraim, Rousseau's re-imagining of the final chapters
of the Book of Judges, contains major themes of Rousseau's oeuvre
and lays forth central concerns of his intellectual projects. Among
the themes highlighted in the concentrated narrative are: the
nature of signs and symbols and their relationship to the
individual and society that produce them; the role of hospitality
in constituting civil society; the textually-displayed moral
disorder as foreshadowing political revolution; and finally, the
role of violence in creating a unified polity. In Le Levite
d'Ephraim, Rousseau explores the psychological and communal
implications of violence and, through them, the social and
political context of society. The incarnation of violence on the
bodies of the women in this story highlights the centrality of
women in Rousseau's thought. Women are systematically dismembered,
both literally and figuratively, and this draws the reader's
attention to the significance of these women as they are
perennially re-membered inside and outside the text. This study of
these themes in Le Levite d'Ephraim places it in relation to the
biblical text at its origins and to Rousseau's own writings and
larger cultural concerns as he grapples with the challenges of
modernity.
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