Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis

Author/Contributor(s):	Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe
Publisher:	Fordham University Press
Date:	02/05/2019
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.