Eli Friedlander reads Rousseau's autobiography, "Reveries of the
Solitary Walker," as philosophy. Reading this work against
Descartes's "Meditations," Friedlander shows how Rousseau's
memorable transformation of experience through writing opens up the
possibility of affirming even the most dejected state of being and
allows the emergence of the innocence of nature out of the ruins of
all social attachments. In tracing the re-creation of a human
subject in reverie, Friedlander is alive to the very form of the
experience of reading the Reveries by showing the ways this work
needs to--and in effect does--generate a reader, without betraying
Rousseau's utter solitude.
Friedlander's book provides an afterlife for the "Reveries" in
modern philosophy. It constitutes an alternative to the analytic
tradition's revival of Rousseau, primarily through Rawls's
influential vision of the social contract. It also counters the
fate of Rousseau's writings in the continental tradition,
determined by and large by Derrida's deconstruction.
Friedlander's reading of the "Reveries," a work that has
fascinated generations of readers, is an incomparable introduction
to one of the greatest thinkers in Western culture.
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