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Rousseau Among the Moderns - Music, Aesthetics, Politics (Hardcover, New)
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Rousseau Among the Moderns - Music, Aesthetics, Politics (Hardcover, New)
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Renowned for his influence as a political philosopher, a writer,
and an autobiographer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known also for his
lifelong interest in music. He composed operas and other musical
pieces, invented a system of numbered musical notation, engaged in
public debates about music, and wrote at length about musical
theory. Critical analysis of Rousseau’s work in music has been
principally the domain of musicologists, rarely involving the work
of scholars of political theory or literary studies. In Rousseau
Among the Moderns, Julia Simon puts forth fresh interpretations of
The Social Contract, the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, and
the Confessions, as well as other texts. She links Rousseau’s
understanding of key concepts in music, such as tuning, harmony,
melody, and form, to the crucial problem of the individual’s
relationship to the social order. The choice of music as the
privileged aesthetic object enables Rousseau to gain insight into
the role of the aesthetic realm in relation to the social and
political body in ways often associated with later thinkers. Simon
argues that much of Rousseau’s “modernism” resides in the
unique role that he assigns to music in forging communal relations.
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