Rousseau's republican romance

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Rousseau's republican romance

Elizabeth Rose Wingrove

(Princeton paperbacks)

Princeton University Press, c2000

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-250) and index

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内容説明

In Rousseau's Republican Romance, Elizabeth Wingrove combines political theory and narrative analysis to argue that Rousseau's stories of sex and sexuality offer important insights into the paradoxes of democratic consent. She suggests that despite Rousseau's own protestations, "man" and "citizen" are not rival or contradictory ideals. Instead, they are deeply interdependent. Her provocative reconfiguration of republicanism introduces the concept of consensual nonconsensuality--a condition in which one wills the circumstances of one's own domination. This apparently paradoxical possibility appears at the center of Rousseau's republican polity and his romantic dyad: in both instances, the expression and satisfaction of desire entail a twin experience of domination and submission. Drawing on a wide variety of Rousseau's political and literary writings, Wingrove shows how consensual nonconsensuality organizes his representations of desire and identity. She demonstrates the inseparability of republicanism and accounts of heterosexuality in an analysis that emphasizes the sentimental and somatic aspects of citizenship. In Rousseau's texts, a politics of consent coincides with a performative politics of desire and of emotion. Wingrove concludes that understanding his strategies of democratic governance requires attending to his strategies of symbolization. Further, she suggests that any understanding of political practice requires attending to bodily practices.

目次

Acknowledgments ix A Note on Texts and Translations xiii INTRODUCTION How to Engender a Political Subject 3 CHAPTER ONE Savage Sensibilities 24 Impossible Beginnings 24 Perfecting Pity 30 (Re)Constituting Nature 37 State Power and Servile Desire 44 "To suffer is the first thing he ought to learn..." 54 CHAPTER TWO Object Lessons 58 Sensing the Difference 58 To What Does Sex Refer? 63 Guys and Dolls 70 Imagining Sophie 77 Marital Arts 84 Paternalism, Barbarism, Freedom, and the State 92 CHAPTER THREE Life Stories 102 Textual Symptoms 102 Novel Creations 108 Gilded Privations 114 Chalet Morality 121 Picture Perfect 127 Self-Perfecting Narratives 131 CHAPTER FOUR Loving the Body Politic 144 Wordplay 144 Personations 148 Maternal Learning 154 National Erotics 163 CHAPTER FIVE Republican Performances 169 What's Your Pleasure? 169 Inside the Cave 174 "That charming sentiment of shame..." 180 Masters of Philosophy 186 Speaking to the Eyes 191 Getting a Taste for One Another 197 CHAPTER SIX Making Rhetoric Matter 207 Agonies and Ecstasies 207 The Story and Two Deferrals 211 Dilemmas of Desire 217 Acting Free 225 Sovereign Representations 232 CONCLUSION Isn't It Romantic? 236 Works Cited 245 Index 251

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