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1. Self-portrait of the philosopher in the context of the enlightement

Author

Radaković Vanja

Subjects
enlightenment, Progress, Naturalism, autobiography, confession, sentimentalism, introspection, empiricism, solipsism, exile, Philosophy (General), B1-5802
Abstract

In the history of philosophy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is mainly considered as an atypical philosopher of the Enlightenment, as a pioneer of the revolutionary idea of a free civilian state and natural law; in literary history, he is considered the forerunner of Romanticism, the writer who perfected the form of an epistolary novel, as well as a sentimentalist. However, this paper focuses on the biographical approach, which was mostly excluded in observation of those works revealing Rousseau as the originator of the autobiographical novelistic genre. The subject of this paper is the issue of credibility of self-portraits, and through this problem it highlights the facts from the author’s life. This paper relies on a biographical approach, not in the positivistic sense but in the phenomenological key. This paper is mainly inspired by the works of the Geneva School theorists - Starobinski, Poulet and Rousset.

Published
2012
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2. Self-portrait of the philosopher in the context of the enlightement

Author

Vanja Radakovic

Subjects
Sociology and Political Science, media_common.quotation_subject, Subject (philosophy), exile, Romanticism, lcsh:B1-5802, autobiography, Naturalism, media_common, Literature, business.industry, introspection, Philosophy, lcsh:Philosophy (General), Enlightenment, empiricism, Solipsism, Confession, sentimentalism, Progress, Empiricism, enlightenment, business, Positivism, confession, solipsism
Abstract

In the history of philosophy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is mainly considered as an atypical philosopher of the Enlightenment, as a pioneer of the revolutionary idea of a free civilian state and natural law; in literary history, he is considered the forerunner of Romanticism, the writer who perfected the form of an epistolary novel, as well as a sentimentalist. However, this paper focuses on the biographical approach, which was mostly excluded in observation of those works revealing Rousseau as the originator of the autobiographical novelistic genre. The subject of this paper is the issue of credibility of self-portraits, and through this problem it highlights the facts from the author’s life. This paper relies on a biographical approach, not in the positivistic sense but in the phenomenological key. This paper is mainly inspired by the works of the Geneva School theorists - Starobinski, Poulet and Rousset. Keywords: enlightenment, Progress, Naturalism, autobiography, confession, sentimentalism, introspection, empiricism, solipsism, exile

Published
2012