Frameworks of Time in Rousseau

Masano Yamashita is Associate Professor of French at the University of Colorado Boulder. She specializes in the literature and social thought of the eighteenth century. She is the author of Jean-Jacques Rousseau face au public: problèmes d’identité (2017) and of numerous articles on French writers of the Enlightenment. Jason Neidleman is Professor of Political Science at the University of La Verne, where he teaches political theory and other subjects in politics, philosophy, history, and law. He is author of The General Will is Citizenship: Inquiries into French Political Thought (2001) and Rousseau’s Ethics of Truth: A Sublime Science of Simple Souls (Routledge, 2017).

Introduction 1. Rewinding the sentiment 2. Forgetting Time 3. Sophie's time off the clock 4. Spectral Memory and “hauntology” in Julie ou La Nouvelle Héloïse 5. Nostalgia and Virtue in Rousseau’s Julie 6. The problems of political time and the solutions of ancient history in Rousseau 7. Political Right, Political Economy, and the Economic Cycle in Rousseau, Quesnay, and Condillac 8. What Time Is It in Rousseau’s Polity? 9. The Time of Growth