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Description: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 mim�sis? 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 thinker who, without formalizing it as such, established a dialectical logic that would determine the entire future of philosophy: in the dialectic between "nature" and its supplement(s), that is, between nature and tekhn�, and in an originary theatricality. Beginning with a reading of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, Lacoue-Labarthe brings out this dialectic in properly philosophical terms, revealing nothing less than a transcendental thinking of origins. For Rousseau, the origin has the form of a "scene"--that is, of theater. On this basis, Rousseau's texts on the theater, especially the Letter to d'Alembert, emerge as an incisive interrogation of Aristotle's Poetics. This can be read not in the false and conventional interpretation of this text that Rousseau had inherited, but rather in relation to its fundamental concepts, mim�sis and katharsis, and in Rousseau's interpretation of Greek theater itself. If for Rousseau mim�sis is originary, a transcendental structure, katharsis is in turn the basis of a dialectical movement, an Aufhebung that will translate the word itself: as Lacoue-Labarthe reminds us, aufheben translates katharein. By in fact reversing the facilities of the Platonic critique, Rousseau inaugurates what we could call the philosophical theater of the future.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis. To get started finding Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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 mim�sis? 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 thinker who, without formalizing it as such, established a dialectical logic that would determine the entire future of philosophy: in the dialectic between "nature" and its supplement(s), that is, between nature and tekhn�, and in an originary theatricality. Beginning with a reading of Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, Lacoue-Labarthe brings out this dialectic in properly philosophical terms, revealing nothing less than a transcendental thinking of origins. For Rousseau, the origin has the form of a "scene"--that is, of theater. On this basis, Rousseau's texts on the theater, especially the Letter to d'Alembert, emerge as an incisive interrogation of Aristotle's Poetics. This can be read not in the false and conventional interpretation of this text that Rousseau had inherited, but rather in relation to its fundamental concepts, mim�sis and katharsis, and in Rousseau's interpretation of Greek theater itself. If for Rousseau mim�sis is originary, a transcendental structure, katharsis is in turn the basis of a dialectical movement, an Aufhebung that will translate the word itself: as Lacoue-Labarthe reminds us, aufheben translates katharein. By in fact reversing the facilities of the Platonic critique, Rousseau inaugurates what we could call the philosophical theater of the future.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis. To get started finding Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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