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Rousseau's opposition to the theater is well known: But is it possible that Rousseau's texts reveal a different conception of theatrical imitation? This short but potent text from a powerful European thinker places Rousseau at the origin of modern speculative philosophy by showing that his thinking on the theater articulates a radical thinking of originary mimesis that was to inflect the future of philosophy.
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"Now available in Jeff Fort's impeccable translation, Poetics of History is the culmination of Philippe Lacoue- Labarthe's lifetime work on the question of mimesis in Rousseau-a question of crucial importance that had never before been posed or answered in this form. Identifying in Rousseau an onto-technology so radical that it challenges his supposed anti-theatricality, Poetics of History redefin
Andrew Parker, Rutgers University