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Social Contract, Masochist Contract - Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau (Hardcover)
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Social Contract, Masochist Contract - Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau (Hardcover)
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Theorization of sensual desire was not uncommon in the eighteenth
century; like many materialists of the French Enlightenment,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau rejected imperatives founded on metaphysical
suppositions and viewed the senses as the only valid source of
philosophical knowledge. In "Social Contract, Masochist Contract,"
Faycal Falaky demonstrates that what distinguishes Rousseau is that
the foundational measure on which he bases his materialist
philosophy is a sexual instinct endowed, paradoxically, with the
same sublime, self-abnegating attributes historically associated
with Christian, metaphysical desire. To understand the aesthetics
of Rousseau s masochism is, Falaky argues, to understand how ideals
of Christian morality and spiritual ennoblement survived the
Enlightenment, and how God died, only to be repackaged in new
fetishes. Whether it is the imperious mistress of his erotic
fantasies, the Arcadian nature of his philosophical reveries, or
the sublime Law designed to elevate the citizen from enslaving
appetite, Rousseau s fetishes herald the new regulative Ideals of
the modern secular state."
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