Social contract, masochist contract : aesthetics of freedom and submission in Rousseau / Fayçal Falaky.
Material type: TextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xii, 224 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9781438449913
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- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778
- Masochism
- Political science -- Philosophy
- Masochisme
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference
- Masochism
- Political science -- Philosophy
- Gefühlsempfindung
- Masochismus
- Sozialvertrag
- 320.1/1 23
- B2137 .F35 2014eb
- 8,2
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Ch. 1 Vague Inquietudes and Uncertain Desires -- ch. 2 Rebirthing the Past -- ch. 3 Machinating (and Confessing) the Mekhane -- ch. 4 Sculpting Desire -- ch. 5 Social Contract, Masochist Contract.
Theorization of sensual desire was not uncommon in the eighteenth century; like many materialists of the French Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau rejected imperatives founded on metaphysical suppositions and viewed the senses as the only valid source of philisophical knowledge. In Social Contract, Masochist Contract, Fayc̜al Falaky demonstrates that what distinguishes Rousseau is that the foundational measure on which he bases his materialist philosophy is a sexual instinct edowed, paradoxically, with the same sublime, self-abnegating attributes associated with Christian, metaphyscial desire. To understand the aesthetics of Rousseau's masochism is, Falaky argues, to understand how ideals of Christian morality and spiritual enoblement survuved the enlightenment, and how God died, only to be repackaged in new fetishes. Whether it is the imperious mistress of his erotic fantasies, the Arcadian nature of his philosophical reveries, or the sublime Law designed to delvate the citizen from enslaving appetite, Rousseau's fetishes herald the new regulative ideals of the modern secular state.
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