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Poetics of History places Rousseau at the origin of modern speculative philosophy by showing that his thinking on the theater, despite its dependence on a false and conventional reading of Aristotle, nonetheless articulates a radical thinking of originary mimesis, and, well before Hegel, an understanding of catharsis as Aufhebung .

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    • Title: Poetics of History by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
    • Publisher: Fordham University Press
    • Print ISBN: 9780823282333, 0823282333
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    • Edition: 2019 1st edition
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