Poetics of history : Rousseau and the theater of originary mimesis
(2019)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Fordham University Press, 2019
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780823282357 (electronic bk.) MWT12274666, 082328235X (electronic bk.) 12274666
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Rousseau's opposition to the theater is well known: But is it possible that Rousseau's texts reveal a different conception of theatrical imitation? This short but potent text from a powerful European thinker places Rousseau at the origin of modern speculative philosophy by showing that his thinking on the theater articulates a radical thinking of originary mimesis that was to inflect the future of philosophy
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