Reframing Rousseau's Lévite D'ephraïm: The Hebrew Bible, Hospitality, and Modern Identity (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment) - Softcover

Abrams, Barbara; Morgenstern, Mira; Sullivan, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800348134 ISBN 13: 9781800348134

Verlag: Voltaire Foundation, 2021

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This study emphasizes broad cultural themes in Le Lévite d'Ephraïm, Rousseau's rewriting of an ancient biblical text. Taking into account Enlightenment approaches to Biblical interpretation, Rousseau's own traumas, the complications of hospitality, and the role of violence in the construction of national identity, this book lays bare this text's relevance for the 21st-century.

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Barbara Abrams is Director of the Global and Cultural Studies Program and Associate Professor of French and Women's and Gender Studies at Suffolk University Boston. Her main field of interest is Eighteenth-Century French literature. Her current research includes the consignment of women to convents in Eighteenth Century France.

Mira Morgenstern is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science at the Colin Powell School of the City College of New York. She is currently at work on a study of the Social Contract entitled The Social Contract and the Politics of the Imagination.

Karen Sullivan is Associate Professor of French at Queens College/City University of New York. She has written a book on Rousseau's aesthetics and articles on Rousseau, Graffigny and Gouges. Her forthcoming work on Rousseau explores Rousseau's work through the lens of 20th century trauma theory.

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• Verlag: Voltaire Foundation
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1800348134
• ISBN 13: 9781800348134
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 241
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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