Mélancolie des signes
The melancholy of signs
The aestetics of the sensitivity of Jean-Jacques Rousseau between expression and imitation
Author(s): Benoit CaudouxSubject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Classiques Garnier
Keywords: Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Jacques Derrida; Dibutade; signs; aestetics
Summary/Abstract: Through an analysis of Rousseau’s Essai sur l’origine des langues’s quotation of the myth of Dibutade’s daughter, this article shows the limits of Jacques Derrida’s reading of it as no more than an expressive gesture : the example is about expressing a sensitivity to signs. It tells us about producing a trace, and a sort of writing, in opposition with Derrida’s idea of Rousseau being a prisoner of the metaphysical illusion of an immediate expression for which language would be nothing but a pale substitute.
Journal: ALKEMIE. Revue semestrielle de littérature et philosophie
- Issue Year: 1/2017
- Issue No: 19
- Page Range: 69-89
- Page Count: 21
- Language: French
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