Nature and Supplementation in Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Editions and Abbreviations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Technology: Between Nature and Anti-Nature
6. Rousseau, Lévi-Strauss’s “Master” 11
7. Rousseau and the Authority of Nature 27
8. Nature as Blind Space 45
9. Rousseau and Technology: The Invention of a New Ecological Paradigm 57
10. Rousseau and “The Mechanical Life” 67
11. II. Politics and Ethics: Beyond the Nature/Culture Polarity
12. Rousseau’s Ethical Freedom 85
13. Remarks on Rousseau’s Dictatorship: Between Machiavelli and Carl Schmitt 101
14. Politics and Religion in the Social Contract 111
15. Alienation and Freedom: Rousseau and Transcending Nature/Culture Dualism 119
16. Rousseau and the Sovereignty of the People 137
17. III. The Philosophical Novel: Culture as Nature’s Supplement
18. Nature and Supplementation in Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse 153
19. Recomposing the Diffracted Text: Rousseau and the Metaphor of the Book of Nature 167
20. Nature, Culture, and the Social Contract: Emile’s point of view 179
21. Contributors 197
22. Index 201