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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818187403321

Autore

Falaky Fayçal <1977->

Titolo

Social contract, masochist contract : aesthetics of freedom and submission in Rousseau / / Fayçal Falaky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

1-4384-4991-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (236 p.)

Disciplina

320.1/1

Soggetti

Masochism

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1 Vague Inquietudes and Uncertain Desires""; ""Between Devotion and Lust""; ""The Gaze of the Physician-Philosopher""; ""The Mad Brides of Christ""; ""A Chaste, Libertine Novel""; ""“I Had Often Travestied Religion in my Own Fashion�""; ""The Masochist�s Lucidity""; ""Embracing the Opiate""; ""2 Rebirthing the Past""; ""Blind Instinct, Mute Fermentation""; ""Chaining the Imagination""; ""Pudeur Versus Pudeur, Love Versus Love""; ""An Instinctual Paladin""; ""Narcissus Reborn""; ""The Masochist Aesthetic""

""3 Machinating (and Confessing) the Mekhane""""The Sign""; ""Containing Itself by Itself""; ""Deus Ex Machina""; ""Staging the “Authorless� Theater""; ""Playing the Child""; ""The Grace of Stealing""; ""It is Up to the Heart to Purify the Ears""; ""4 Sculpting Desire""; ""The Nouvel Abelard""; ""Another Pygmalion""; ""Re-Becoming a Child""; ""The Invisible Gardener""; ""A Natural Trickery""; ""A Different Kind of Theater""; ""Fusing the Useful and the Agreeable, Virtue and Pleasure""; ""A Question of Physics, Morality, and Poetics""; ""5 Social Contract, Masochist Contract""

""Two Fathers""""The Law Before the Law""; ""The Third Party""; ""Un Peuple Naissant""; ""An Authority that is Nothing""; ""Simulating The Mother�s Voice""; ""Rousseau�s Revolutions""; ""“All of this Had AIRS OF MAGIC AND RELIGION�""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works



Cited""; ""Index""