TY  - GEN
T1  - Rousseau's republican romance
A1  - Wingrove, Elizabeth Rose, 1960-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2000
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm51615917
AB  - 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
OP  - 255
CN  - JC179.R9 W55 2000eb
SN  - 1400813867
SN  - 9781400813865
SN  - 9781400823543
SN  - 1400823544
SN  - 0691009961
SN  - 069100997X
SN  - 1282753975
SN  - 9781282753976
SN  - 9780691009964
SN  - 9780691009971
KW  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, : 1712-1778 : Contributions in political science.
KW  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, : 1712-1778 : Contributions in republicanism.
KW  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, : 1712-1778 : Views on sex role.
KW  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, : 1712-1778 : Political and social views.
KW  - Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, : 1712-1778
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : History & Theory.
KW  - Political science
KW  - Republicanism
KW  - Sex role
ER  -