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Rousseau goes to the revolutionary theatre against his wishes

Rousseau au théâtre: révolutionnaire malgré lui

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the major figures of the French Revolution, even though he died a few years before the Bastille was taken. Many politicians considered his moral treaties on how to regenerate the corrupted and spoiled nation as a guide for conducting the Revolution. The philosopher was largely venerated by the republican revolutionaries for being the one who gave back to the French the liberty and dignity they had been deprived of by the Ancien Régime. As the democratisation of the public opinion influenced art, popular playwrights used the philosopher’s popularity and put him in their theatrical productions, despite all Rousseau’s anterior protestations against the institution of the theatre, considered as a place of social destruction and moral licentiousness. The aim of this article is to retrace the process of revolutionary “mythologisation” of Jean-Jacques by analysing two plays in which he was introduced as a main character. Simultaneously, the article investigates which elements of Rousseau’s philosophy appear in both productions to reveal the influence of his thought on republican society and politics; for theatre became an important instrument of revolutionary propaganda.
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Tomasz Wysłobocki. Rousseau au théâtre: révolutionnaire malgré lui. Orbis Linguarum, 2016, Au Carrefour des sens 2, 45, pp.355 - 366. ⟨hal-01559168⟩
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