Representation, poeticity, and reading in the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.(Critical Essay)

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From: French Forum
Date: 20020922
Author:Johnston, Guillemette

Studies of the epistemology of representation(1) in the writings of JeanJacques Rousseau have generally fallen into two categories: content analyses and analyses based on the function and structuring of texts. Content studies such as those by Pierre Burgelin and Jean Starobinski(2) first examine Rousseau's description of representation's evolution as a category of experience, then project the consequences of this evolution into other areas of Rousseau's discourse. In this approach, representation comes into being through a counterposing of unity with loss-the loss of transparency ...

<[L]a voix de la nature et celle de la raison ne se trouveroient jamais en contradiction><[C]e qui fait la misere humaine est la contradiction qui se trouve ... entre la nature et les institutions sociales ... rendez l'homme un, vous le rendrez heureux autant qu'il peut l'etre><[R]ealiser l'homme de la nature dans la societe><[A]u lieu de detruire l'egalite naturelle><[L]'alienation totale de chaque associe avec tous ses droits toute la communaute><[U]n corps moral et collectif [qui] recoit. . . son unite, son moi commun, sa vie et sa volonte [comme une] personne publique><[C]'est l'harmonie qu[c] le sacrifice] restaure, c'est l'unite sociaie qu'il renforce><[I]l eat juste que Ce qui estjuste soit suivi><]e traite d'education s'acheve par un veritable roman, au sens le plus banal do terme: la rencontre de Sophie et d'Emile, leur amour mutuel ...>

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