Modernités de Rousseau—Lumières 15.1 ed. by Céline Spector (review)

(autonomie, pédagogie, etc.). Nevertheless, Soëtard’s essay offers much food for thought on the continued relevance of Rousseau’s Idea of education to pedagogical practices today, and the potential perils involved when reading Rousseau à la lettre. Sonoma State University (CA) Suzanne Toczyski Spector, Céline, éd. Modernités de Rousseau—Lumières 15.1. Pessac: CIBEL/PU de Bordeaux, 2010. ISBN 978-2-86781-681-9. Pp. 231. 22 a. This bi-annual issue offers ten penetrating essays on the continuing influence of Rousseau’s political thought on current debates, for the most part, within the AngloSaxon and German worlds of political theory. One would not immediately associate Rousseau’s thought with the likes of Rawls,Walzer, Nussbaum, Benhabib, Horkheimer, Adorno, Althusser, Habermas, or Honneth. Yet, strikingly cogent cases are made here linking directly or dialectically many of Rousseau’s key political concepts to those of modern and contemporary political theorists. Counter to the belief that the Marxist Althusser held Rousseau’s political theory in contempt, Kenta Ohji traces the author’s lifelong meditation on Rousseau cum philosopher of history whose notion of historical mutation (Second Discourse) helped mold his own work on contingency and necessity. Florent Guénard examines the central role (and misreading) of Rousseau’s notion of pity, self-love, self-esteem, and recognition in the ongoing debates between Walzer and Rawls on the question of social equality and justice. Fabienne Brugère studies the delicate relationship between Rousseau’s ideas of the moral self and those of Martha Nussbaum and Joan Tronto on liberal democracy and a theory of care. While they acknowledge Rousseau’s importance in positing both moral sentiment (Second Discourse) and moral education (Émile) as key to the development of a sense of social justice, they are equally uncomfortable with his treatment of women as moral and political actors on unequal footing. Authors Florian Nicodème and Isabelle Aubert offer surprising insight into the role Rousseau plays as the forerunner of social philosophy or ‘founding father’ of Critical Theory. Nicodème’s study is genealogical, tracing both hostility and receptivity of respective generations of the Frankfurt School (Horkheimer/ Adorno; Habermas; Honneth) to Rousseau’s anthropology and political theory, in particular, his concept of socialization as a process of ‘dénaturation’(this becomes key to Honneth’s formulation of ‘social pathology’).Aubert traces the profound influence that Rousseau had on Habermas whose earliest work on the public sphere finds inspiration in Rousseau’s creative works, seeing in him the earliest great theorist of individualism who placed value on intimacy and introspection of the domestic sphere (Nouvelle Héloïse, Confessions); to continue with Rousseau’s reflections on ‘public opinion’(Second Discourse) and its absence, to a large degree, from the Social Contract that paves the way for Habermas’s theory of deliberative, rather than a cognitive, form of democracy. Two essays reassess Rousseau’s influence on political institutions of the 244 FRENCH REVIEW 87.2 Reviews 245 Third Republic, revealing a surprising reticence among late nineteenth-century French republican thinkers to embrace Rousseau’s legacy. Finally, Carla Hesse’s essay on“Lire Rousseau sous la Révolution française”convincingly argues the question of Rousseau’s impact on revolutionary politics from a phenomenological rather than a hermeneutical , approach: How was Rousseau being read by whom? While radicals tended to read excerpts of Rousseau, gleaned from pamphlets or speeches, conservative factions worked from the full text.Ironically,the latter,more‘learned’readings tended to pervert his thought, while ‘Rousseau as slogan’ became moments of ‘public intimacy’ where these new citizens brought Rousseau’s words to life. University of Kansas Diane Fourny Vitali, Ilaria, éd. Intrangers (I): post-migration et nouvelles frontières de la littérature beur. Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia, 2011. ISBN 978-2-8061-0020-7. Pp. 147. 19 a. , éd. Intrangers (II): littérature beur, de l’écriture à la traduction. Louvain-laNeuve : Academia, 2011. ISBN 978-2-8061-0047-4. Pp. 189. 25 a. These volumes constitute the second and third publications of the Sefar collection that explore multiple forms of displacement, exile, and crossings between the global South and the global North. The essays and theoretical approaches showcased herein...