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Constitutive elements of the discourse of natural instruction in Rousseau's Emile: situations and implications.(Jean-Jacques Rousseau )(Critical Essay)
From: The Romanic Review
Date: 20010501
Author:Johnston, Guillemette
In Emile, (1) Jean-Jacques Rousseau describes a mythical process of education through which the master reveals to his pupil wisdom that is simultaneously social and natural. The master's part in this myth is to be nature's emissary, since Rousseau wishes to restitute natural directivite (2) in Emile via the master's teachings. The word "myth" describes this process well, because mythology treats of forces similar to those Rousseau wishes to introduce. "[R]epresenting beings who embody under symbolic shape the forces of nature [or] aspects of the human condition," (3) myth brings ...
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