... work in the sense she draws from Paul de Man's readings of “allegory” in Rousseau. The “ethicality” of Johnsonian narcissism, the article argues, lies precisely in its undoing of the moralizing alignment of different evaluative schemas, and this is ultimately its political purchase as well. Brown...

...Jane Anna Gordon Revisiting Carole Pateman's classic discussion of women and consent, this essay advances a qualified defense of consent through defending a second, less hegemonic model of it as articulated most forcefully by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Although difficult to realize, the author argues...

...Peggy Kamuf The bad object of this essay is reading. It assembles fragments of an abandoned project that would have posed the delirious thesis of universal reading disorder. There are four fragments, which analyze scenes of the other reading from Augustine, Rousseau, Flaubert, and Blanchot...

... are not capable of reasoning. Then we might of course conclude that the anti-intellectual tendency in women's studies accords with Rousseau, Hegel, Auguste Comte, and others. Is that just by chance or because of a kind of mirror-like relationship? There is a distressing sentence in Rousseau's letter to d'Alembert...

...: The Education of Richard Rodriguez . Boston : Bantam , 1983 . Rohrbach Erika . “ Fertile, Fatal, and Futile: Confession in Chateaubriand's Atala and René . Master's Essay . Columbia U , 1990 . Roth Phillip . Patrimony . New York : Simon , 1991 . Rousseau Jean-Jacques...

... when describing the eighteenth century in these broad strokes and not the idealization of sentiment demonstrated by, for example, Lawrence Sterne in Britain or Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Continent—nor, of course, had reason...

... that “the speech which must inaugurate and maintain absolute separation is by its essence rooted in space, which cannot conceive separation and absolute alterity” (Writing 116, L’Ecriture 171). Like Rousseau, though for different reasons...

... . Paris : Albin Michel , 1994 . Rousseau Jean-Jacques . “ A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality .” The Social Contract and Discourses . New York : Dutton , 1950 . Rousseau Jean-Jacques . Emile, or on Education . Trans. Bloom Allan . New York : Basic , 1979 . Scott...

.... Instead, Balibar characterizes this movement as one of successive dislocations that form an “aporetic trajectory” (3). Formally, Balibar’s reading proceeds through the identification of a series of décalages , invoking Althusser’s impressive reading of Rousseau’s Social Contract . This is a procedure...

... on Deleuze in Leo Bersani: A Speculative Introduction hypothesizes a connection between the absent origin Derrida finds in Rousseau in Of Grammatology and a perhaps similarly nonexistent primary sadism, thereby linking the seemingly secondary masochism to writing (33–34). It is notable that Althusser’s...

... Rebellion and the Failure of Marriage in the Fiction of Carson McCullers.” Pembroke Magazine 20 ( 1988 ): 63 -71. Preminger, Alex, and T. V. F. Brogan et al., eds. The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics . Princeton:Princeton up, 1993 . Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Social Contract...

... Princeton University Press. Translated by James Swenson james swenson teaches French at Rutgers University. He is the author of On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Considered as One of the First Authors of the Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2000) and translator of books and articles by Étienne Balibar...

... for Derrida, education for Rousseau, and sublimation for Lacan. Not that these terms are interchangeable or designate the same thing, but each reinforces the social imperative toward the “marriage” of “mind and world” ( Warminski 8 ), toward a unified system, a comprehension, that strives to efface its...

...: Chance and the Modern British Novel . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1993 . Rousseau Jean-Jacques . Les Reveries du Promeneur solitaire. Les Confessions. Autres Textes Autobiographiques . Ed. Gagnebin Bernard and Raymond Marcel . Paris : Gallimard , 1959 . Vol. 1 of Oeuvres...

... of the metaphor. In graduate school, I locked on to Rousseau, his resistance to authority and narrative plans for a bet- ter world, as I buffeted through the mid-sixties, a period for which I—as perhaps most of my generation—was ill prepared...

..., blindness is the privileged trope of mutilation: Like the protagonist in the Hardy story, he [Rousseau] is disfigured, défiguré, defaced. And also as in the Hardy story, to be disfigured means primarily...

..., its intrusive presence that imposes itself on will, ranging from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s writing of “accents to which one cannot close one’s ear and which by way of it penetrate to the very depths of the heart” (250–51...

... the notice of philosophers such as John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant and the practical plans of Joseph Priestley, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and her brother John Aikin, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth. The effort to identify the standing of what we now call...

...: Cambridge up, 1989 . Pateman, Carole. “Women and Consent.” Political Theory 8 ( 1980 ): 152 . Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Émile . Ed. and trans. Allan Bloom. New York: Basic, 1979 . Rowold, Katharina, ed. Gender and Science:Late-Nineteenth-Century Debates on the Female Mind and Body . Bristol...

... Père Goriot in which Balzac alludes to a passage in Rousseau where he addresses the reader with a question. What if, without leaving Paris and with guaranteed immunity, you could profit greatly from the murder of an old mandarin...