Ebook: Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis

Poetics of History places Rousseau at the origin of modern speculative philosophy by showing that his thinking on the theater, despite its dependence on a false and conventional reading of Aristotle, nonetheless articulates a radical thinking of originary mimesis, and, well before Hegel, an understanding of catharsis as Aufhebung.

The book presents a new and surprising philosophical reading of Rousseau’s thinking on theater and mimesis.