João Pedro Blanco Milani

The project aims to develop an interpretation of Rousseau's work, fundamentally combining his Essay on the Origin of Languages and his autobiographical texts, in an attempt to establish a latent continuity between literature and philosophy in his work. This is a complex and difficult problem, since it is not directly stated in his texts. However, the tensions between both areas are extremely present in a significant domain of concepts to be studied. The criticism of sociability and history found in the Discourses, the analysis of the decline of languages associated with the detachment of social bonds given in the Essay, the discussion about forms of government contained in the Social Contract: all these moments in Rousseau's work find justification in the gestures of ‘hiding’ and ‘writing’. Not only with his analytical acuity and image of denunciation, but above all as the positioning of a distinct truth through textuality, and also through literature in its constitution as a possibility of the Other in the figure of the writer.