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Rousseau's Reader - Strategies of Persuasion and Education (Hardcover)
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Rousseau's Reader - Strategies of Persuasion and Education (Hardcover)
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On his famous walk to Vincennes to visit the imprisoned Diderot,
Rousseau had what he called an "illumination"--the realization that
man was naturally good but becomes corrupted by the influence of
society--a fundamental change in Rousseau's perspective that would
animate all of his subsequent works. At that moment, Rousseau "saw"
something he had hitherto not seen, and he made it his mission to
help his readers share that vision through an array of rhetorical
and literary techniques. In Rousseau's Reader, John T. Scott looks
at the different strategies Rousseau used to engage and persuade
the readers of his major philosophical works, including the Social
Contract, Discourse on Inequality, and Emile. Considering choice of
genre; textual structure; frontispieces and illustrations; shifting
authorial and narrative voice; addresses to readers that
alternately invite and challenge; apostrophe, metaphor, and other
literary devices; and, of course, paradox, Scott explores how the
form of Rousseau's writing relates to the content of his thought
and vice versa. Through this skillful interplay of form and
content, Rousseau engages in a profoundly transformative dialogue
with his readers. While most political philosophers have focused,
understandably, on Rousseau's ideas, Scott shows convincingly that
the way he conveyed them is also of vital importance, especially
given Rousseau's enduring interest in education. Giving readers the
key to Rousseau's style, Scott offers fresh and original insights
into the relationship between the substance of his thought and his
literary and rhetorical techniques, which enhance our understanding
of Rousseau's project and the audiences he intended to reach.
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