Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[jenks]

JJR mentioned in Stanbridge that I’m reading: “Rousseau wanked like caged bear in comfort of himself from the moment he discovered his great gift.’

 

[Corpsey]

On that subject (and re: your current reading), didn't Proust used to wank over rats fighting?

 

[Corpsey]

Proust and the Sex Rats

A modest investigation into whether the French writer indulged in an unusual fetish.

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Probably a nasty slur, like the one about me owning a fleshlight that's drying with the dishes not ten feet from me as I type this

 

[version]

I've seen three different people mention Rousseau since Stan made this thread.

 

[Clinamenic]

I've seen three different people mention Rousseau since Stan made this thread.

Thats more people than those who have mentioned Rousseau in this very thread!

 

[Clinamenic]

 

[Clinamenic]

So I just finished the second discourse, Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality, and I’m ultimately impressed with the coherence and scope of the argument here. He’s basically saying that pre-rational man lacked the faculties from which society emerges, and which by extension gives rise to the various agreements and conventions that enable reputation and esteem, and the inequality therebetween.

 

[Clinamenic]

He makes a lot of conjecture about the pre-rational state of “natural man” but I think it’s permissible within the context of the points he was trying to make.