Time and alienation in Rousseau
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1971
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This essay is primarily concerned with demonstrating Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s personal and political struggle against the particularizing, limiting measure of time.
That Rousseau's autobiographical and literary writings reveal a lament and rebellion against time is not a new insight but we will extend this line of inquiry into Rousseau's theoretical political work.
There woven in more subtle threads, we find the same unifying priority: an attempt to defeat time and to grant man—either in the immediacy of the moment of self-alienation or in the pure abstractness of the General Will— eternality.
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Bibliography: p. 98-99.
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Sackeroff, R. S. (1971). Time and alienation in Rousseau (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15473