Jean-Jacques Rousseau's doctrine of the arts /
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| Author / Creator: | Robinson, Philip E. J. |
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| Imprint: | Berne ; New York : P. Lang, c1984. |
| Description: | iv, 520 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | European university studies. Series XIII, French language and literature ; vol. 90 = Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIII, Französische Sprache und Literatur ; Bd. 90 Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XIII, Französische Sprache und Literatur Bd. 90. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/735521 |
| Summary: | This is the first book to set out comprehensively Rousseau's theoretical statements on the arts: music and opera, theatre, fiction, poetry, the visual arts and dance. These statements are seen in terms of the phases of his intellectual development: the early years, the social criticism of the 1750s, the future-orientated theory of Emile and other texts, and finally the increasing self-scrutiny. This approach, conscious at all times of the element of personal commitment in his thinking, permits a sympathetic understanding, if not a resolution, of the famous paradoxes. The chief of these, his simultaneous condemnation and practice of drama, music and literature, is seen less as a personal contradiction than as a pointer to the ills of society which outrage him.<br> Despite the huge social, political and economic upheavals since his death in 1778, Rousseau emerges as a thinker who has much to teach those concerned for the health of the arts in a modern world and for the moral values which attend them. |
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| Item Description: | Bibliography: p. [509]-520. |
| Physical Description: | iv, 520 p. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 3261033797 |