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Paperback Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis Book

ISBN: 0823282333

ISBN13: 9780823282333

Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis

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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...

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