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Poetics of History : Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jeff Fort is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is Poetics of History : Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis about?
Rousseau’s opposition to the theater is well known: Far from purging the passions, it serves only to exacerbate them, and to render them hypocritical. But is it possible that Rousseau’s texts reveal a different conception of theatrical imitation, a more originary form of mimesis? Over and against Heidegger’s dismissal of Rousseau in the 1930s, and in the wake of classic readings by Jacques Derrida and Jean Starobinski, Lacoue-Labarthe asserts the deeply philosophical importance of Rousseau as a
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jeff Fort
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780823282357
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- History, Philosophy, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25