Frameworks of Time in Rousseau

Frameworks of Time in Rousseau explores the ways in which Jean-Jacques Rousseau envisaged time as a diagnostic tool for understanding the state of society and the predicaments of modernity. Central to his conceptualization of both nature and history, time also plays a unique role in Rousseau’s literary and aesthetic explorations of selfhood and affect.

This book brings into dialogue specialists from education, political theory, literature, and cultural studies with the aim of underscoring Rousseau’s contributions to themes that preoccupy us today such as the appreciation of slow time, the uncounted time of women’s lives, and temporal challenges related to politics and the economy.

Masano Yamashita is Associate Professor of French at the University of Colorado Boulder. She specializes in the literature and social thought of the eighteenth century. She is the author of Jean-Jacques Rousseau face au public: problèmes d’identité (2017) and of numerous articles on French writers of the Enlightenment.

Jason Neidleman is Professor of Political Science at the University of La Verne, where he teaches political theory and other subjects in politics, philosophy, history, and law. He is author of The General Will is Citizenship: Inquiries into French Political Thought (2001) and Rousseau’s Ethics of Truth: A Sublime Science of Simple Souls (Routledge, 2017).