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Rousseau, desire and the modern society

Rousseau, desire and the modern society

Publié le par Eloïse Lièvre

Call For Panel Papers for NEASECS 2002 Special Expanded Panel entitled:

THE DARK UNDERBELLY OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT:
ROUSSEAU, DESIRE, AND MODERN SOCIETY

We are requesting proposals for scholarly papers both for a special expanded panel session at NEASECS 2002 (see below), and to form the basis of a proposed edited volume arising from the session.

Papers should address enlightenment discussions of the multiplication and/or limitation of desire within modern society.  Because Rousseau in particular developed influential models both of the multiplication of desire (especially in his second _Discourse_) and of the rational, moral, and political limitation of desire (in his _Social Contract_), treatments of his work will serve as a centre for the panel, not, however, to the exclusion of other enlightenment discussions of the issues involved.

We are seeking papers which address the multiplication and/or limitation of desire within modern society from a variety of enlightenment disciplinary and thematic perspectives.  Papers may draw from perspectives such as discursive context, historical background, and subsequent influence; from the perspectives of various enlightenment authors; or from the perspectives of problems such as the transition from the state of nature to society, the symbolism of a secular Fall, the origin of property, corruption and bourgeois society, the birth of capitalism, the commodification of nature, humanity, gender, etc., the technical and scientific mastery of nature, domination and alienation, and theories of language.  Interdisciplinary papers are particularly welcome.


THE CONFERENCE THIS YEAR: NEASECS 2002
"THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE IDEA OF MODERNITY
New York City, October 17-19, 2002
An International Interdisciplinary Conference

This, the 26th annual conference of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (NEASECS), will include 240 panelists, 74 panel topics, 3 plenary speakers, and a variety of eighteenth-century rarities and attractions.