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Poetics of History

Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis

(Author) Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
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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.

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Publisher:
Fordham University Press
Format:
Hardcover
Number of pages:
None
Language:
en
ISBN:
9780823282340
Publish year:
2019
Publish date:
Feb. 5, 2019

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

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