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

French Forum | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

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 ...

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