ISBN: 1441586970

The Last Walk Francesca Cernia Slovin Jean-Jacques Rousseau's last book, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, was to have had ten walks. The tenth he wrote only three pages before his death. Fr… More...

The Last Walk Francesca Cernia Slovin Jean-Jacques Rousseau's last book, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, was to have had ten walks. The tenth he wrote only three pages before his death. Francesca Cernia Slovin's The Last Walk essays its completion. Another inveterate walker, Nietzsche, once remarked that "only ideas had while walking, only ideas that have been digested and expelled, have value." As he and Rousseau both knew, this idea and practice is perennial: from the pre-Socratics who in effect walked from the peripheries of mainland Greece to plant the roots of fundamental questioning there, through the peripatetic philosophers, until any current moment. Since at least Montaigne, traveling has remained the privileged metaphor of the reflective essay, the critical assaying of one's contemporary culture from a perspective simultaneously within and outside it. In Maurice Blanchot's words in L'attente, l'oubli: "Time and time again, walking and always marking time, another country, other cities, other roads, the same country." Voltaire remarks that "Rousseau wrote with fire in his pen." Echoing eighteenth-century style, The Last Walk is captivating literary and philosophical invention, intertwining the discourses of his critics with those of a quintessential hero walking from the Enlightenment through the immediate pre-Revolutionary period to Romanticism with beguiling ambiguity. Like a flame, Rousseau wavers between memory and delirium, embodying at once the fragility of beli contemporary,fiction,foreign language fiction,genre fiction,historical,historical fiction,literature and fiction Historical Fiction, Xlibris Corporation LLC<

2009, ISBN: 9781441586971

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