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Language and Politics in Jean Jacques Rousseau - Focusing on the Critique of Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida

Seo Gyu-Hwan 1

1인하대학교

Candidate

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Politics is "outside" of language, if language is thought to be only a perfect instrument expressing thoughts. However, the relationships between language and politics cannot be so purely understood, in so far as language is a complex and social medium of complex societies. According to Jean Jacques Rousseau, "un homme sauvage" can be a man of error who doesn’t know any conventionality. But it is not clear that all metaphorsmust be primitive and in error, as Paul de Man presented in this thesis for "Resistanceto theory" . Rousseau noted that the most important and difficult problem comes at the transition from the poesie world to the prosa world, from the presocial to the true social langue. At the transition, poesie functions politically as much as it does spiritually. Poesie as the source of eloquence, not as eloquence itself, functions politically in the prosa world. In summary, without a collective hypothesis, it is impossible for a legislator to ground a body politic. The first poesie can be transformed into the prosa world. Derrida misinterprets Rousseau's theory of intersubjectivity thatis different from the theory of individualism. Rousseau argues for collective voices and writing, not an individualistic voice.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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