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Following his opposition to the establishment of a theatre in
Geneva, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is often considered an enemy of the
stage. Yet he was fascinated by drama: he was a keen theatre-goer,
his earliest writings were operas and comedies, his admiration for
Italian lyric theatre ran through his career, he wrote one of the
most successful operas of the day, Le Devin du village, and with
his Pygmalion, he invented a new theatrical genre, the Scene
lyrique ('melodrama'). Through multi-faceted analyses of Rousseau's
theatrical and musical works, authors re-evaluate his practical and
theoretical involvement with and influence on the dramatic arts, as
well as his presence in modern theatre histories. New readings of
the Lettre a d'Alembert highlight its political underpinnings,
positioning it as an act of resistance to external bourgeois
domination of Geneva's cultural sphere, and demonstrate the work's
influence on theatrical reform after Rousseau's death. Fresh
analyses of his theory of voice, developed in the Essai sur
l'origine des langues, highlight the unique prestige of Italian
opera for Rousseau. His ambition to rethink the nature and function
of stage works, seen in Le Devin du village and then, more
radically, in Pygmalion, give rise to several different discussions
in the volume, as do his complex relations with Gluck. Together,
contributors shed new light on the writer's relationship to the
stage, and argue for a more nuanced approach to his theatrical and
operatic works, theories and legacy.
On ne peut penser les Lumieres sans l'auteur du Contrat social et
l'Emile, mais on ne saurait cependant nier que Rousseau denonce les
'philosophes modernes' dans les termes les plus forts. Comment donc
penser les rapports entre Rousseau et les philosophes? Dans ce
volume les specialistes de Rousseau vont au-dela des oppositions
figees. Ils montrent comment le 'citoyen de Geneve', a partir de
sources philosophiques partagees avec ses contemporains, delimite
le champ de la raison et construit une pensee politique rigoureuse,
s'imposant ainsi a ceux qui souvent rejettent ses idees religieuses
ou sa denonciation des sciences et des arts. Confrontant la
richesse irreductible de ses ecrits, les auteurs proposent le
portrait intellectuel d'un homme qui construit sa pensee a la fois
avec et contre les philosophes, les obligeant a justifier ou a
modifier leurs propres convictions face au defi que represente son
oeuvre. Figure emblematique de son siecle, Rousseau suscite
l'indignation mais oblige aussi a des reexamens difficiles. C'est
par l'etude de cette position a la fois centrale et marginale que
l'on peut saisir la force de sa pensee et discerner ce qu'elle
signifie pour nous.
Ne en 1712, Jean-Jacques Rousseau ne cesse de nous interpeller:
depuis cinquante ans, l'etude de son oeuvre s'est diversifiee et
renouvelee de facon remarquable. Dans ce recueil, treize
specialistes de Rousseau, venus d'horizons disciplinaires divers,
presentent leur reflexion la plus recente, tantot en revenant sur
un ecrit fondamental de l'auteur, tantot en eclairant des aspects
peu connus de son oeuvre, tantot en proposant une interpretation
d'ensemble de son parcours exceptionnel. Rousseau et l'amitie,
Rousseau copiste de musique, Rousseau et l'opinion publique, la
difficile appropriation du premier tome des Confessions par les
partisans du philosophe: les sujets abordes sont d'une grande
richesse. Le volume offre au lecteur une serie de nouvelles
perspectives sur un auteur et un oeuvre inepuisables. A l'oree de
l'annee Rousseau 2012, il interessera tous ceux qui veulent
connaitre les dernieres evolutions de la critique, qu'ils soient
litteraires, philosophes ou musicologues. Le nom de Jean-Jacques
Rousseau vit encore.
At a moment when nationalism is resurgent and stubbornly refuses to
obey past predictions of its imminent demise, a scholarly return to
the inaugurating eighteenth-century debates about nationalism,
nations and the nation state seems not only desirable but
necessary. This collection of essays surveys the issues under eight
headings, with the French Revolution as a recurring reference point
– not least because of the tension within the Revolution between
national interests and universal aspirations, a tension that
arguably continues to beset modern ideas of the nation. The volume
offers a broad survey of current thinking on the eighteenth-century
nation and the emerging nationalisms of the age. Clusters of essays
provide extended treatment of the certain major topics, while
others give unexpected sidelights involving figures as diverse as
John Toland (Irish philosopher) and Brillat-Savarin (French
gastronome and cosmopolitan nationalist). All combine to provide a
clear focus on an area of eighteenth-century studies of continuing
relevance to the modern reader in Europe and beyond.Â
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Peacemakers (Paperback)
Lindsay Ross-Hazel; Sean Michael O'Dea
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