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The Writing of Paranoia

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Paradoxes of Celebrity

Bibliographic Data

ID4369750
AuthorsAntoine Lilti (corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume103
Issue1
Pages53-83
Publication date2008-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRepresentations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/rep.2008.103.1.53
OpenAlexW2065377820
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited4

This article proposes a historical account of Rousseau's paranoid writings by showing how he experienced the contradictions of celebrity, which deeply transformed his status as a writer and his relations with readers. It thus stresses some hitherto unnoticed paradoxes of the eighteenthcentury public sphere

Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Paranoia · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Public sphere · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought

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Unique citing works7
Citations per year0,41
Citation span2009 - 2025 (17)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 6

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