Nature of Rousseau's 'Rêveries'

Physical, Human, Aesthetic

AvJohn C. O'Neal

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Research on Rousseau’s innovative last work is changing direction. Long situated in a context of autobiographical writing, its moral and philosophical content is now a major critical preoccupation. The Nature of Rousseau’s ‘Rêveries’: physical, human, aesthetic brings together the work of international specialists to explore new approaches to the defining feature - the ‘nature’ - of the Rêveries. In essays which range from studies of botany or landscape painting to thematic or stylistic readings, authors re-examine Rousseau’s intellectual understanding of and personal relationship with different conceptions of nature. Drawing connections between this text and earlier theoretical writings, authors analyse not only the philosophical and personal implications of Rousseau’s reflections on the outer world but also and his attempts to examine and validate both his own nature and that of ‘l’homme naturel’.In The Nature of Rousseau’s ‘Rêveries’: physical, human, aesthetic the contributors offer new insights into the character of Rousseau’s last major work and suggest above all its experimental, elusive quality, hovering between inner and outer worlds, escape and fulfilment, experience and writing. They underline the unique richness of the Rêveries, a work to be situated not simply at the end of Rousseau’s life, but at the very centre of his thought.

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Utgivningsdatum:2008-03-04
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt:582 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska, Franska
Serie:Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
Antal sidor:298
Förlag:Voltaire Foundation
ISBN:9780729409285

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'The variety of Rousseaus we get here is testimony to the ‘richness and complexity’ of the Rêveries and of Rousseau’s conception of nature.'Eighteenth-Century Studies

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List of tablesList of illustrationsJohn C. O’Neal, IntroductionI. Nature in Rousseau’s RêveriesAlexandra Cook, The ‘Septième promenade’ of the Rêveries: a peculiar account of Rousseau’s botany? Alexandra Cook, AppendixDorothy Johnson, Rousseau and landscape painting in FranceJohn c. O’Neal, Nature as refuge in Rousseau’s Rêveries du promeneur solitaireII. Nature and human nature in Rousseau’s RêveriesJean-François Perrin, 'Les opérations que font les physiciens’: physique de l’homme naturel selon les Rêveries du promeneur solitaireJean-Luc Guichet, Nature et origine: l’accident de MénilmontantNatasha Lee, A dream of human natureIII. Human nature in Rousseau’s RêveriesJacques Berchtold, Le carrosse et le jardinier: nature et dénaturation dans la ‘Deuxième promenade’Fiona Miller, Forced into freedom: Rousseau’s strange self-portrait in the RêveriesJohn T. Scott, Rousseau’s quixotic quest in the Rêveries du promeneur solitaireLaurence Mall, 'Dieu est juste; il veut que je souffre; et il sait que je suis innocent’: le problème du mal dans les Rêveries de RousseauSylvie Romanowski, Un étranger pas comme les autres: la voix du maîtrePhilip Stewart, ‘Ebranlé mais non convaincu’: Rousseau parmi les philosophesKevin Inston, Nature as the possibility of change and resistanceOurida Mostefai, De Vincennes à Ménilmontant: promenade et projet autobiographique dans les Rêveries du promeneur solitaireZev Trachtenberg, The exile and the moss-trooper: Rousseau and Thoreau on walking in natureIV. The formal or aesthetic nature of Rousseau’s RêveriesJames Swenson, The solitary walker and the invention of lyrical proseCarole Martin, De rêveries en promenades: essai d’étude générique à partir des Rêveries du promeneur solitaireSummariesBibliographyIndex