New performance
Rousseau and the Man in the Nature
Festival Clàssics
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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.
‘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.
Performer: Jordi Boixaderas
Translation and adaptation: Joan Casas
Direction: Glòria Balañà Altimira
Coproduction: Festival Clàssics, CCCB and Temporada Alta
Participants: Jordi Boixaderas, Joan Casas, Glòria Balañà Altimira
