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Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau - Bienfaisance and Pudeur (Hardcover, New)
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Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau - Bienfaisance and Pudeur (Hardcover, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in French
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According to Rousseau, the best possible relationship between
unequals is one of 'beneficence', giving, receiving and repaying
benefits. This book addresses the problem implicit in his writings
of whether it is indeed possible for a just and generous
relationship to exist between non-equals. Judith Still draws
together issues in Rousseau's work which are often treated in
isolation: the state, just relations between individuals, the
genealogy of passions, sexual politics and the constructing of a
feminine identity. Using techniques of reading drawn from literary
theory, particularly from the work of Derrida, de Man and
Starobinski, she analyses the conceptual underpinnings of
Rousseau's ethics, and the gaps and contradictions in his works, to
argue that ultimately it is sexual difference, constructed
defensively as a fixed, hierarchical opposition, which disturbs the
practice of beneficence. She shows how Rousseau's reworking of the
classical inheritance in a revolutionary historical moment, his
peculiar combination of Enlightenment rationality and
near-pathological sensibility, and his oscillating
self-identification with virility and femininity, are reflected in
this important aspect of his political and ethical theory.
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