Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis

by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Book Overview

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 mimesis? 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823282333
• ISBN13: 9780823282333
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.5"