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On Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution (Hardcover)
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On Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution (Hardcover)
Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics
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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.
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