Poetics of History : Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (169 pages)
Cover -- POETICS OF HISTORY -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Part I The Scene of Origin -- Part II Anterior Theater -- Notes.
Poetics of History places Rousseau at the origin of modern speculative philosophy by showing that his thinking on the theater, despite its dependence on a false and conventional reading of Aristotle, nonetheless articulates a radical thinking of originary mimesis, and, well before Hegel, an understanding of catharsis as Aufhebung.