A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Allan Bloom
Ambiguity
Amour de soi
Appeal to nature
Appearance and Reality
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Awareness
Captivating
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Consciousness
Despotism
Digression
Discourse on Inequality
Dominance and submission
Egocentrism
Eloquence
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Eroticism
Femininity
Governance
Hedonism
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Heterosexuality
Incest
Infidelity
Jacques Derrida
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Juste milieu
Levite
Libido
Loyalty
Masculinity
Modesty
Morality
Narcissism
Narrative
Obedience (human behavior)
Only Words (book)
Oppression
Patriarchy
Persius
Philosophy
Pity
Political economy
Political philosophy
Politics
Pride
Promiscuity
Reasonable person
Republicanism
Rhetoric
Ridicule
Romantic hero
Satire
Scholasticism
Self-interest
Self-love
Sensibility
Sentimentality
Sexual Desire (book)
Sexual identity
Sexual Politics
Shame
Slavery
Sovereignty
State of nature
Superiority (short story)
The Philosopher
The Social Contract
Thought
Two Treatises of Government
Writing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691009971
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 13 Mar 2000
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Rousseau's Republican Romance, Elizabeth Wingrove combines political theory and narrative analysis to argue that Rousseau's stories of sex and sexuality offer important insights into the paradoxes of democratic consent. She suggests that despite Rousseau's own protestations, "man" and "citizen" are not rival or contradictory ideals. Instead, they are deeply interdependent. Her provocative reconfiguration of republicanism introduces the concept of consensual nonconsensuality--a condition in which one wills the circumstances of one's own domination. This apparently paradoxical possibility appears at the center of Rousseau's republican polity and his romantic dyad: in both instances, the expression and satisfaction of desire entail a twin experience of domination and submission. Drawing on a wide variety of Rousseau's political and literary writings, Wingrove shows how consensual nonconsensuality organizes his representations of desire and identity. She demonstrates the inseparability of republicanism and accounts of heterosexuality in an analysis that emphasizes the sentimental and somatic aspects of citizenship.
In Rousseau's texts, a politics of consent coincides with a performative politics of desire and of emotion. Wingrove concludes that understanding his strategies of democratic governance requires attending to his strategies of symbolization. Further, she suggests that any understanding of political practice requires attending to bodily practices.
Elizabeth Wingrove is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
