How Long to Read On Jean-Jacques Rousseau

How Long Does it Take to Read On Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 48 minutes to read On Jean-Jacques Rousseau by James Swenson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In order to grasp what it means to call Rousseau an "author" of the Revolution, as so many revolutionaries did, it is necessary to take full measure of the difficulties of literary interpretation to which Rousseau's work gives rise, particularly around such a charged term as "author." On Jean-Jacques Rousseau shows that Rousseau's texts consistently generate a division in their own reading, a division both designated and masked by the fiction of authorship. These divisions can occur successively—as in the narrative reversals and discontinuities characteristic of Rousseau's fictional and autobiographical works—or simultaneously, in the form of incompatible attempts to apply the lessons of a single text to an urgent historical moment. Given the structure of these texts, their "influence" can only occur in an equally paradoxical form. Rousseau's contribution to revolutionary thinking lies in his conceptualization of the constitutive function of misunderstanding and narrative discontinuity, in history and political action as well as in literature. Such misunderstandings and discontinuities are particularly well illustrated by the vicissitudes of the reading of Rousseau's texts during the revolutionary period, a moment when "readings" occurred as political programs. The Revolution enacted Rousseau precisely to the extent that revolutionaries could not agree on what action he called for. He is "one of the first authors of the Revolution" not because he was one of its causes, but because he provided the terms in which the logic of the revolutionary process becomes intelligible.

How long is On Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

On Jean-Jacques Rousseau by James Swenson is 338 pages long, and a total of 87,204 words.

This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read On Jean-Jacques Rousseau Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 56 minutes to read On Jean-Jacques Rousseau aloud.

What Reading Level is On Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

On Jean-Jacques Rousseau is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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