{"product_id":"social-contract-masochist-contract-fayzal-falaky-9781438449906","title":"Social Contract, Masochist Contract: Aesthetics of Freedom and Submission in Rousseau","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProvocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTheorization of sensual desire was not uncommon in the eighteenth century; like many materialists of the French Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau rejected imperatives founded on metaphysical suppositions and viewed the senses as the only valid source of philosophical knowledge. In \u003ci\u003eSocial Contract, Masochist Contract\u003c\/i\u003e, Fayçal Falaky demonstrates that what distinguishes Rousseau is that the foundational measure on which he bases his materialist philosophy is a sexual instinct endowed, paradoxically, with the same sublime, self-abnegating attributes historically associated with Christian, metaphysical desire. To understand the aesthetics of Rousseau's masochism is, Falaky argues, to understand how ideals of Christian morality and spiritual ennoblement survived the Enlightenment, and how God died, only to be repackaged in new fetishes. Whether it is the imperious mistress of his erotic fantasies, the Arcadian nature of his philosophical reveries, or the sublime Law designed to elevate the citizen from enslaving appetite, Rousseau's fetishes herald the new regulative Ideals of the modern secular state.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fayçal Falaky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438449909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438449906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Fayçal Falaky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48439139926271,"sku":"9781438449906","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_849f304d-f310-469a-a391-207dd8dc9f7e.jpg?v=1777175697","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/social-contract-masochist-contract-fayzal-falaky-9781438449906","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}