On Imposture : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Literary Lies, and Political Fiction.
Margel, Serge.
On Imposture : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Literary Lies, and Political Fiction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (88 pages) - Studies in Continental Thought Series . - Studies in Continental Thought Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Staging of an Imposture -- Mendacium est fabula, or The Right to Lie by Admission of Innocence: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: From the Fourth Walk to the Epigraph of the Confessions -- Introduction -- I. Lying in the Confessions: Between Innocence and Injustice -- II. An Innocent Liar, a Truthful Man, and a Confessing Witness -- Fictions of the Cultural: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Body Politic of Democracy -- Introduction -- I. Nature, Culture, and the Economy of History -- II. The Body Politic and the Discourse of Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780253065308
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,-1712-1778-Criticism and interpretation.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,-1712-1778-Political and social views.
Impostors and imposture in literature.
Electronic books.
PQ2056.P6 M374 2023
848.509
On Imposture : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Literary Lies, and Political Fiction. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (88 pages) - Studies in Continental Thought Series . - Studies in Continental Thought Series .
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Staging of an Imposture -- Mendacium est fabula, or The Right to Lie by Admission of Innocence: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: From the Fourth Walk to the Epigraph of the Confessions -- Introduction -- I. Lying in the Confessions: Between Innocence and Injustice -- II. An Innocent Liar, a Truthful Man, and a Confessing Witness -- Fictions of the Cultural: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Body Politic of Democracy -- Introduction -- I. Nature, Culture, and the Economy of History -- II. The Body Politic and the Discourse of Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index.
9780253065308
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,-1712-1778-Criticism and interpretation.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,-1712-1778-Political and social views.
Impostors and imposture in literature.
Electronic books.
PQ2056.P6 M374 2023
848.509