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Author Wingrove, Elizabeth Rose, 1960-

Title Rousseau's republican romance / Elizabeth Rose Wingrove
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages)
Contents How to Engender a Political Subject -- Savage Sensibilities -- Object Lessons -- Life Stories -- Loving the Body Politic -- Republican Performances -- Making Rhetoric Matter
Summary In Rousseau's Republican Romance, Elizabeth Wingrove combines political theory and narrative analysis to argue that Rousseau's stories of sex and sexuality offer important insights into the paradoxes of democratic consent. She suggests that despite Rousseau's own protestations, "man" and "citizen" are not rival or contradictory ideals. Instead, they are deeply interdependent. Her provocative reconfiguration of republicanism introduces the concept of consensual nonconsensuality--a condition in which one wills the circumstances of one's own domination. This apparently paradoxical possibility appears at the center of Rousseau's republican polity and his romantic dyad: in both instances, the expression and satisfaction of desire entail a twin experience of domination and submission. Drawing on a wide variety of Rousseau's political and literary writings, Wingrove shows how consensual nonconsensuality organizes his representations of desire and identity. She demonstrates the inseparability of republicanism and accounts of heterosexuality in an analysis that emphasizes the sentimental and somatic aspects of citizenship. In Rousseau's texts, a politics of consent coincides with a performative politics of desire and of emotion. Wingrove concludes that understanding his strategies of democratic governance requires attending to his strategies of symbolization. Further, she suggests that any understanding of political practice requires attending to bodily practices
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-250) and index
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Subject Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Contributions in political science
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Contributions in republicanism
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Views on sex role
SUBJECT Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 -- Political and social views
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 fast
Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Political science
Republicanism
Sex role
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1400813867
9781400813865
9781400823543
1400823544