On imposture : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, literary lies and political fiction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Margel, Serge
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
Series:	Studies in Continental thought.
Subjects:	Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, > 1712-1778 > Political and social views. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, > 1712-1778 > Criticism and interpretation. Impostors and imposture in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Staging of an Imposture
Mendacium est fabula, or The Right to Lie by Admission of Innocence: Jean-Jacques Rousseau: From the Fourth Walk to the Epigraph of the Confessions
Introduction
I. Lying in the Confessions: Between Innocence and Injustice
II. An Innocent Liar, a Truthful Man, and a Confessing Witness
Fictions of the Cultural: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Body Politic of Democracy
Introduction
I. Nature, Culture, and the Economy of History
II. The Body Politic and the Discourse of Fiction
Bibliography
Index