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Rousseau and the Politics of Ambiguity: Self, Culture and Society.(Review)

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From: The Modern Language Review
Date: 20000101
Author:O'Dea, Michael

Rousseau and the Politics of Ambiguity: Self, Culture and Society. By MIRA MORGENSTERN. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1996. xviii + 270 pp.

Although Jean-Jacques Rousseau's writings resist any easy general categorization, the modern academy has its own imperatives and imposes its own disciplinary boundaries. Along with many drawbacks, these have the modest advantage of allowing one to see what sort of animal Rousseau is considered to be within the university. In most of Europe he is primarily in the hands of literary scholars, but in North America, ...

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