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On imposture : Jean-Jacques Rousseau, literary lies and political fiction / Serge Margel ; translated by Eva Yampolsky.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Margel, Serge.
- Series:
- Studies in Continental thought
- Studies in Continental Thought
- Standardized Title:
- De l'imposture. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Political and social views.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Criticism and interpretation.
- Impostors and imposture in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]
- 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
- I. Nature, Culture, and the Economy of History
- II. The Body Politic and the Discourse of Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 23, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780253065315
- 0253065313
- 9780253065308
- 0253065305
- Publisher Number:
- 40031663844
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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