Date of Award
1991
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Hokenson, Jan W.
Abstract
Undergoing an epistemological shift from the structured and rigid reasoning of neo-classicism to a philosophy oriented toward human individuality and the emotional experience of the individual, Rousseau works in new modes in his late text Les Reveries du promeneur solitaire. Complaining of adversity and persecution, he seeks lost happiness through imaginative recreation of the past. Through this recreative faculty he achieves not only recollection but the consequent re-experiencing of past events. The second imaginative experience, he insists, is sometimes superior to the first. In ways critics have overlooked, imaginative re-creation transcends the past.
Extent
63 p.
Recommended Citation
Rubinoff, Anne Dolores, "Rousseau's reveries: Imaginative recreation of the past" (1991). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1990 - 1999. 227.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_4/227
Identifier
FADT14742
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1991.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters