A portrait of the artist as a public icon: Crime, rumour and fable in relation to Rousseau judge of Jean-Jacques
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2016
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Jean Perrin, « A portrait of the artist as a public icon: Crime, rumour and fable in relation to Rousseau judge of Jean-Jacques », Dix-huitième siècle, ID : 10670/1.9a5d64...
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Drawing on the correspondence sent and received by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and on what the treatises, newspapers and works of literature that teach us about the crisis of forensic discourse – in a century which witnessed the Calas Affair and Robert-François Damiens’s attempt to assassinate Louis XV – this essay explores four defining traits of this discourse in the light of the fictional trial of “J.-J.”. Firstly, there is the figure of the villain, followed by universal surveillance and the crime of lèse-majesté and, lastly, the one-eyed titan engulfed by Tartar, from whom the gods themselves shrink.
