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...audience of academics, but half of them are your rivals, and it’s part of competition. It gets vary fatiguing. THC: Professor Leo Damrosch, your renowned work ‘Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius’ unconventionally focuses on an up close and personal view of Rousseau??s life. Can you expand more of what was in your head when you were approaching this biography in illuminating all these aspects of his life that don’t come to the face of most writing?LD: The first thing is that he wrote probably...
...Perhaps in subtle deference to this irony, the seal adopted in 1780 replaced the childlike Native American begging for help with the taciturn, muscled man standing upright that appears today. In a way, the image evokes Rousseau??s “noble savage,” emerging from the wilderness not as a barbarous or murderous villain but as a simple representation of the primitivist and paternalistic fantasy Europeans held about North America, a fantasy which envisaged the new continent as the seat of an uncorrupted paradise. His arrow pointed down in peace, his gaze forward, the hero...
...destroyed (i.e. Locke’s Hatch), the people that have departed one way or another (i.e. Michael, Libby, and Ana Lucia), and those moments of revelation that we will never get back (i.e. “Her name’s Alex?! That’s Rousseau??s daughter!”). The second season of “Lost” was a televised ode to innocence; Let us celebrate that via DVD. Even though I despised every moment of your screen-time…Michelle Rodriguez, this one’s for you?...
...unlikely ever to come to light; but this doesn’t deter Damrosch. The best biographies, he says, are “reinterpretations.”So is “Jean-Jacuqes Rousseau: Restless Genius” a groundbreaking, must-read reinterpretation? If anything it reinterprets Rousseau??s character, though perhaps “anti-interpretation” describes the biography more accurately. Damrosch’s method is to lay out, to demonstrate. The authorial voice vanishes in the elegant telling of his tale. Do not search these pages for a final judgment of Rousseau...
...Harvard students to the world of Rousseau in Literature and Arts A-72: “The Enlightenment Invention of the Modern Self,” which he will offer again next fall – says he wanted to create an accessible biography “that made Rousseau??s life interesting to the ordinary reader. The existing biographies of him, while thorough, are somewhat long and boring.” “Most people have heard of ‘The Social Contract,’” Damrosch says, referring to Rousseau?...