ENG150Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Culture War, Tyrant, Conditional Mood
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Canon can > list of works of the time. First culture war" as the king dies, the quarrel dies out (louis 14th) Rousseau welcome in france (first generation enlightenment philosopher) Danton talks about how rousseau"s books got into france > pay young boys to carry crates of books across the mountains. Wrote social contract, mile and confessions were to have a profound influence on later political and educational theory. Things used by rousseau used frequently by rousseau, rhetorical questions conditional mood (should, could, would) Part 1 : state of nature idealized past he admits did not happen. Of course not! proposes a rival narrative though clever rhetorical move. For rousseau the necessary fall" is the fall of the state of nature. Man in society is weak, men in civil society are slaves (more psychological sense > enslaved to nice things)
