Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2016-10-20T17:23:10Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Barbara Rodrigues Barbosa.pdf: 770347 bytes, checksum: 2679fa42541849016dfad86395b3d065 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-20T17:23:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Barbara Rodrigues Barbosa.pdf: 770347 bytes, checksum: 2679fa42541849016dfad86395b3d065 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-01 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research’s investigative motto is the Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s adage in his book Emile, or On the Education (1762), to know, “whatever they may say I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices” (ROUSSEAU, 2004, p.96). We take from the analysis of some of his works, as in, Discourse About the Science and the Arts (1750) and the Narcissus’ Preface (1752), just as the polemics about his dircours. It’s about, above all, of clarifying that in the study we look to the paradox as a philosophical concept, videlicet, to understand the paradox as a line of thought capable of understanding the received opinions and reorganize then. Other authors have already concerned about paradox in some studies and in their works2, but with no intention to run out of it, or to give a definitively answer, this rummage comes in an attempt to sense the presence of the paradox in the Discourse About the Science and the Arts and notice what is the function of this Jean-Jacques’s line of thought and if it can be recognized as a critical language / O mote investigativo dessa pesquisa é a máxima adotada por Jean-Jacques Rousseau em seu Emílio, ou da Educação, a saber, “digam o que disserem, prefiro ser homem de paradoxos a ser homem de preconceitos” (ROUSSEAU, 2004, p.96). O tomamos a partir da análise de obras como o Discurso sobre as ciências e as Artes (1750) e o Prefácio de Narciso (1752), bem como da polêmica entorno do discurso. Trata-se, antes de tudo, de esclarecer que no presente estudo procuramos nos referir ao paradoxo enquanto conceito filosófico, isso significa dizer, entender o paradoxo como uma forma de pensamento capaz de entender as opiniões recebidas e as reconfigurarem. Outros autores já procuram colocar essa questão em alguns estudos e em suas obras1, mas longe de querer a esgotar, ou responde-la definitivamente, essa investigação se apresenta na tentativa de entender a presença do paradoxo no Discurso sobre as ciências e as artes e perceber qual é a função desempenhada por esse conceito no pensamento de Jean-Jacques e se ele pode ser entendido como linguagem crítica

Submitted by Cleide Dantas (cleidedantas@ufpa.br) on 2014-10-10T12:27:38Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) Dissertacao_SentimentoSubjetividadeRousseau.pdf: 808046 bytes, checksum: 89d1c76b65db755b76b6343794b32016 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Rosa Silva (arosa@ufpa.br) on 2014-10-10T12:41:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) Dissertacao_SentimentoSubjetividadeRousseau.pdf: 808046 bytes, checksum: 89d1c76b65db755b76b6343794b32016 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-10T12:41:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23898 bytes, checksum: e363e809996cf46ada20da1accfcd9c7 (MD5) Dissertacao_SentimentoSubjetividadeRousseau.pdf: 808046 bytes, checksum: 89d1c76b65db755b76b6343794b32016 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013 / O objetivo desta dissertação é estabelecer as relações existentes entre Rousseau, Kant e os primeiros românticos alemães. A partir da perspectiva estabelecida pela Terceira Crítica, de Kant, nos voltaremos para as obras de Rousseau e do Romantismo (particularmente, as de Novalis e Schlegel) para extrair delas dois conceitos fundamentais, o de sentimento e o de subjetividade. Acreditamos, assim, poder esclarecer, por meio das próprias obras de Rousseau e dos primeiros românticos, o autêntico significado das noções de sentimento e de subjetividade, de modo a não só recuperar o verdadeiro valor filosófico de tais obras, mas, sobretudo, para mostrar o uso consciente delas na determinação de suas posturas frente ao pretenso “racionalismo” dominante no pensamento moderno. / The objective of this thesis is to establish the relationship between Rousseau, Kant and the early German Romantics. From the perspective established by the Third Critique, Kant, we will turn to the works of Rousseau and Romanticism( particularly those of Novalis and Schlegel) to extract these two fundamental concepts, and the feeling of subjectivity. We believe, therefore, to elucidate, through their own works of Rousseau and the early romantics, the true meaning of the notions of sentiment and subjectivity in order to not only recover the true value of such philosophical works, but mainly to show the conscious use of them in determining their positions against the alleged “rationalism” dominant in modern thought.

Rousseau and Kant were philosophers of freedom. Both believed freedom was the essence of humanity, and both believed that "freedom is self-legislation." This thesis examines what they understood to be self-legislation. According to Rousseau natural freedom was lost with the establishment of society. Society is an "unnatural" order and the true basis of society is simply convention. Man is free only if he is subject to laws of his own making, or at least to those laws to which he has consented. The ideal state, according to Rousseau, is the republic based on laws that have been created and adopted by each members of the community. It is in this sense of freedom, for Rousseau, is self-legislation. Kant believed the important issue was demonstrating the metaphysical possibility of freedom, not the reconstruction of society. Kant argued that freedom could be demonstrated, and morality reaffirmed, by focusing on the 11 ought" of reason. The 11 ought 11 transcends the physical world and was a pure law of reason. It is not subject to the physical laws of causality. Man has the ability to act according to this law of reason. Man is transcending the physical realm, and the physical laws of nature, whenever he makes a moral decision based on what he 11 ought 11 to do, or whenever he puts duty before his physical desire. This, Kant argues, is self-legislation, and only here may man hope to be free.

Ever since Homer told the tales of magnificent men and called these men heroes, the siren song of heroic achievement has been impossible to resist. By consistently acting in a manner that is above the capacity of normal human beings, a hero becomes a model of emulation and inspiration for ordinary, lesser mortals. This thesis traces the development of normative models of heroic thought and action in the work of Homer, Plato and Rousseau. It argues that models of heroism have evolved according to changing conceptions of the political institutions that comprise a polis and, in turn, notions of citizenship. Homer establishes the heroic ideal and offers an image of Man as Hero. The Homeric hero is a man of transparent action who is never incapacitated because he acts upon his instincts. Unrestrained by doubt, he soars above humanity and performs deeds that assure him of everlasting fame and glory. The Homeric hero is a warrior-prince who lives in the absence of a polis. He rules his community as a patriarch who places his personal quest for glory above the dictates of the common good. The Homeric hero is consequently limited in his ability to act as a model of emulation for those who live in a polis. In an historical period that gave rise to the polis as a desirable and unavoidable aspect of human life, Plato remodels heroic ideals. Thus Plato's ideals of heroism could survive and prosper alongside political structures and institutions guided by the demands of the common good. The philosophical hero exalted in the Platonic dialogues gains true knowledge, which enables him to excel at all activities he undertakes. The philosopher is impelled to channel his vast superiority into the realm of political leadership. Plato recasts the Hero as Citizen, an elite citizen who rules for the benefit of all. Plato's model of heroism, like Homer's, is premised on an anti-egalitarian, hierarchical conception of human worth. In the Social Contract, Rousseau aims to reconcile modern ideals of human equality with Homeric and Platonic hierarchical notions of heroic excellence. The Social Contract attempts to make all citizens equally heroic by insisting that men can only excel when they all participate equally in political sovereignty. Failing to reconcile heroism and equality, however, Rousseau chooses heroism and reverts firstly to aristocratic political formulas before finally abandoning politics altogether as a positive force for humanity. His work nevertheless inspired both a lasting notion of human equality that shaped the modern political landscape and evoked the romantic modern notion of an isolated individual, as epitomised by Rousseau himself, heroically climbing the peaks of human achievement. Rousseau's model of individual heroism effectively completes the cycle and returns the notion of heroism to where it begun with Homer, Man as Hero. The concept of the heroism, traced through these theorists, shows it to be a changing terrain yet consistent in its allure. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of History and Politics, 2004.

Cette recherche analyse la mise en scène du néolibéralisme dans le cycle romanesque Les Gestionnaires de l'apocalypse. On tente d'y mettre à jour les relations qui unissent la création littéraire au discours social, de saisir comment la fiction expose les vues de l'auteur, Jean-Jacques Pelletier, sur le néolibéralisme et de déchiffrer la signification nouvelle que prend cette problématique dans l'oeuvre. Pour ce faire, on s'inspire de la perspective sociocritique et on postule que tout roman est un produit symbolique qui se nourrit des tensions idéologiques présentes dans le discours social de l'époque. On étudie donc l'inscription de la socialité et de l'idéologie dans les textes romanesques. Dans ce cadre, on entame l'analyse par une mise en contexte sociohistorique de la problématique néolibérale, de la production du corpus littéraire, ainsi que du projet d'écriture de l'auteur. On examine, par la suite, les structures, les thématiques et les procédures de textualisation des romans pour en saisir le fonctionnement. On dégage ainsi la machine narrative du cycle romanesque, sa quête de sens, son univers imaginairement concret, les structures systémiques de son microcosme et le schéma relationnel de ses personnages. On se penche alors sur la mise en scène du néolibéralisme et on met à jour sa dynamique idéologique. En analysant les interactions entre les diagnostics contextuels, les prises de position idéologiques et les confrontations des personnages principaux, on exhume le discours du cycle et sa critique du néolibéralisme. Au terme de l'analyse, les résultats obtenus mettent en lumière les relations de pouvoir qu'exercent les organisations sur les individus et l'implantation de dispositifs de contrôle social, politique, économique et culturel par le discours néolibéral. On estime ainsi que le cycle Les Gestionnaires de l'apocalypse prend position par son questionnement sur la liberté individuelle et son métissage hybride de matériaux scripturaux. ______________________________________________________________________________ MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : Sociocritique, Néolibéralisme, Aliénation, Représentation sociale, Idéologie, Discours social.

Mozart's opera Così fan tutte encapsulates various theories of Enlightenment sexual expression and presents a didactic program aiming at appropriate male comportment in a love situation. Through various musical devices, Mozart establishes ideal Rousseauist gender characteristics and their debased forms, and applies them to the respective sexes as evidence of weakened or enlightened states. Mozart also provides an educative voice in the character of Don Alfonso, whose musical lines are appropriately instructive. An exploration of sexual ideals in the Enlightenment as expressed in contemporary texts and civil documents will provide a framework for Rousseau's theories of education and gender formation as postulated in Emile, ou de l'education and Sophie, ou la Nouvelle Héloïse. A musical analysis of several numbers in Cosi demonstrates the unfolding weaknesses of the characters. While the men progress towards an enlightened education in the natures of the sexes, the women undergo a regression of character.

The aim of this study is to make a comparison between Rousseau&rsquo / s and Kant&rsquo / s theory of justice. This thesis defends the arguments of Rousseau&rsquo / s democratic political theory against the claims raised by Kant. Rousseau and Kant formulate how to relieve the tension between individual and society. This tension is the one between individual and political freedom. Rousseau calls it the tension between moral and political freedom and Kant terms it as internal and external freedom. However, Rousseau ensures continuity between two concepts of freedom, whereas Kant seems inconsistent. The main argument of this thesis is that the critical potential of Rousseau&rsquo / s notion of the social contract is jeopardized by Kant&rsquo / s Idea of original contract in which the sovereign authority is taken away from people since Rousseau&rsquo / s notion of the social contract turns into Idea of original contract in Kant&rsquo / s theory of justice. In this regard, this thesis particularly seeks to answer the question of what constitutes the legitimacy of the contract in their theory of justice.

Reproduction de : Thèse de doctorat : Sciences de l'éducation : Lyon 2 : 2003. / Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. Bibliogr.

Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Political Science, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.

The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on March 19, 2010). Thesis advisor: Dr. Michael Yonan. Art work removed from thesis by author. Includes bibliographical references.