Lessons on Rousseau
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1784785563
ISBN-13
9781784785567
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 26th, 2019
Print length
160 Pages
Weight
386 grams
Dimensions
14.50 x 21.60 x 1.70 cms
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The renowned French theorist dissects the leading Enlightenment philosopher
Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau’s <i>Discourse on the Origins of Inequality</i> at the École normale supérieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars, attentive not just to Rousseau’s ideas, but also to those of his concepts that were buried beneath metaphors or fictional situations and characters. Second, we are now discovering that the "late Althusser’s" theses about aleatory materialism and the need to break with the strict determinism of theories of history in order to devise a new philosophy "for Marx" were being worked out well before 1985 in this reading of Rousseau dating from twelve years earlier, which introduces into Rousseau’s text the ideas of the void, the accident, the take, and the necessity of contingency.
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