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Rousseau and the Man in the Nature

Inauguration of the Festival classics

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The actor Jordi Boixaderas serves us a reading of texts of autobiographical confession that show the evolution of the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the main philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment, in the framework of the sixth edition of the Festival Clàssics that this year is dedicated to nature. This will be followed by a round table discussion with the participants, Sira Abenoza, director of the Festival Clàssics and the philosopherBegonya Saez Tajafuerce. 

Fools who always lament nature, realise that all your evils come from yourselves’.

Throughout his work, the French philosopher reflected on true human nature and on the passage from life in nature to life in society. Through this reading, we will approach Rousseau's figure of the ‘noble savage’, a figure that has become key to modern political thought and to the philosophy of education. A concept that today we can listen to with the distance of a critical gaze, aware of the influences that colonialism had on the history of Western thought.

The reading will include excerpts from the French thinker's fundamental works, such as the Confessions, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, and the Essay on the Origin of Languages, among others, interwoven with brief introductions by Joan Casas, who also signs the introduction.

The event will end with a round table with the participants, and will also count with the director of the Festival, Sira Abenoza, and the philosopher Begonya Saez Tajafuerce to review Rousseau's thought from a postcolonial and feminist point of view.

Performer: Jordi Boixaderas
Translation and adaptation: Joan Casas
Direction: Glòria Balañà Altimira
Coproduction: Festival Clàssics, CCCB and Temporada Alta

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Rousseau and the Man in the Nature

Inauguration of the Festival classics

The actor Jordi Boixaderas serves us a reading of Jean-Jacques Rousseau  with texts that reflect on true human nature and on the passage from life in nature to life in society, and that show the evolution of his thought. This will be followed by a round table discussion to review Rousseau's ...

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