Reframing Rousseau's "Lévite d'Ephraïm" : the Hebrew Bible, hospitality, and modern identity

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Reframing Rousseau's "Lévite d'Ephraïm" : the Hebrew Bible, hospitality, and modern identity

Title remainder

the Hebrew Bible, hospitality, and modern identity

Statement of responsibility

Barbara Abrams, Mira Morgenstern, and Karen Sullivan

Creator

• Abrams, Barbara Lise

Contributor

• Morgenstern, Mira
• Sullivan, Karen, (Professor of French language)
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778

Author

• Sullivan, Karen, (Professor of French language)
• Morgenstern, Mira

Subject

• Bible, Judges, XIX-XXI -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Hospitality -- Political aspects
• Hospitality in the Bible
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
• Social contract -- Religious aspects | Christianity
• Violence -- Political aspects
• Violence in literature
• Violence in the Bible
• Women -- Violence against
• Bible, Judges -- Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

• eng
• fre
• fre
• lat
• eng

Summary

"Le Lévite d’Ephraïm, Rousseau’s re-imagining of the final chapters of the Book of Judges, contains major themes of Rousseau’s oeuvre and lays forth central concerns of his intellectual projects. Among the themes highlighted in the concentrated narrative are: the nature of signs and symbols and their relationship to the individual and society that produce them; the role of hospitality in constituting civil society; the textually-displayed moral disorder as foreshadowing political revolution; and finally, the role of violence in creating a unified polity. In Le Lévite d’Ephraïm, Rousseau explores the psychological and communal implications of violence and, through them, the social and political context of society. The incarnation of violence on the bodies of the women in this story highlights the centrality of women in Rousseau’s thought. Women are systematically dismembered, both literally and figuratively, and this draws the reader’s attention to the significance of these women as they are perennially re-membered inside and outside the text. This study of these themes in Le Lévite d’Ephraïm places it in relation to the biblical text at its origins and to Rousseau’s own writings and larger cultural concerns as he grapples with the challenges of modernity."--

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• Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2021:05
• Bible, Judges, XIX-XXI
• Bible, Judges, XIX-XXI

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illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

Chiefly in English; appendixes in French and English, including two French translations from the Latin Vulgate of "Judges" chapters 19-21

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment,

Series volume

2021:05