Русо y чвору књижевног и економског
Rousseau in the Literary-Economic Knot

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses Rousseau’s approach to the relationship between literature and economy. Since there was no literature or economy in the contemporary sense in the pre-revolutionary France of the 18th century, the links between the literary and the economic were less concealed. These fields were not strictly distinguished but made up a tight knot. Drawing upon the dialectical approach, I read Rousseau’s questioning of the literary-economic node on several levels: i.) the economic conditions of the literary practices in the context of French absolutism; ii.) the economic contents in literary works; iii.) the overlapping of the literary with economic forms, and iv.) the economy of literature that incites courage and calls for a change of the socio-economic reality.

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