Title: Representation, Poeticity, and Reading in the Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Abstract: Studies of the epistemology of representation 1 in the writings of Jean-Jacques 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 that occurs with humanity's fall from nature to society. This fall stimulates an upsurge of artificiality in humankind, creating an excess of appearance (as opposed to being) through the establishment of the nature/culture duality in all its manifestations. Afterwards this duality expresses itself through and as representation, since from this point of view representation is nothing but this establishment of duality and appearance in the place of unity.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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