Rousseau's hand : the crafting of a writer / Angelica Goodden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodden, Angelica.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Authors, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Rousseau's Hand' explores Rousseau's involvement in and promotion of craft in the context of the technological developments of the Enlightenment and his own European celebrity as a writer.

Contents:

Cover; Rousseau's Hand: The Crafting of a Writer; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; BOOK AND HAND; HOMO FABER'S FAITH; THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY; FAITH AND MATERIALS; KINDS OF MASTERY; INDUSTRIAL TIMES; IDIOSYNCRASY; 1: The Business of Making; THE GENEVAN BACKGROUND; MAKING THE ARTIFICER; ART AND CRAFT; EVERYDAY WORLDS; ON THE JOB; 2: Writing (Down) Music; EARLY HANDWORK; MÉTIERS; WORK AND LEISURE; REPRODUCTIONS; AT SECOND HAND; 3: Art or Craft?; PERILOUS CREATION; RHETORIC, TRUTH, AND WORLDLINESS; TOOLS AND PROGRESS; 4: Drama and Life; HISTRIONICS AND INTEGRITY

THE TASKS OF LEISUREUTILITARIANISM AND SENSIBILITY; NATURE AND ART; 5: Emile, Wealth and Wellbeing; BODILY RESOURCE; HUMAN RELATIONS; PRAXIS AND PRAGMATISM; CRAFT OPTIONS AND ESSENTIALS; NATURALISM; THE MORALITY OF MAKING AND DOING; 6: Crafting a Self; THE AGENCY OF HANDS; WORD AND IMAGE; THE ELUSIVENESS OF BEING; PRACTICAL INTEGRITY; CURIOSITY; 7: The Order of Insight; NOVEL THOUGHTS; OLD PREOCCUPATIONS; BOTANICAL RECREATIONS; LIVING BY THE HAND (AND FOOT); Conclusion; THE ARTISAN'S TOUCH; FREE AGENCY; USE AND FUNCTION; THE GOOD LIFE; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 2, 2013).

ISBN:

0-19-968383-2

0-19-150675-3

OCLC:

868960278