Rousseau’s Dissent and Deconstruction of Enlightened Rationality

Authors

  • Francisco Javier Higuero Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i19.201

Abstract

The ideal state of nature, as explained in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s philosophical production, is not only defined as non-linguistic, but also has been, to certain extent, romanticized by many critics who present the ideas of this thinker as distant from the premises and proposals that the cultural movement that the Enlightenment defended. Such an primary state of nature was considered to be blissful, peaceful, harmonious, void of envy or jealously and prelinguistic or silent. Related to this circumstance, man’s natural view of the world was immediate and whole, unfractured by language and articulated words. However, when Rousseau presented in The Social Contract his theory of the General Will, he developed argumentative strategies directed to overcome the isolationist connotations of the state of nature and to deconstruct the binary dichotomy that exists between abstract rationality and unmediated experience.

Author Biography

Francisco Javier Higuero, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

FRANCISCO JAVIER HIGUERO ejerce la docencia universitaria en Wayne State University (Detroit). Su campo de investigación se halla focalizado prioritariamente en el pensamiento contemporáneo y en la filología hispánica de los siglos XIX, XX y XXI. Ha publicado libros tales como La imaginación agónica de Jiménez Lozano (1991), La memoria del narrador (1993), Estrategias deconstructoras en la narrativa de Jiménez Lozano (2000), Intempestividad narrativa (2008), Narrativa del siglo posmoderno (2009), Racionalidad ensayística (2010), Argumentaciones perspectivistas (2011), Discursividad insumisa (2012), Recordación intrahistórica en la narrativa de Jiménez Lozano (2013), Reminiscencias literarias posmodernas (2014) y Conceptualizaciones discursivas (2015), lo mismo que numerosos artículos en revistas especializadas, de reconocido prestigio internacional.

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Higuero, F. J. (2017). Rousseau’s Dissent and Deconstruction of Enlightened Rationality. Valenciana, (19), Págs. 145–. https://doi.org/10.15174/rv.v0i19.201

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No. 19 (2017): Núm. 19 enero-junio 2017

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