Tensões rousseaunianas: entre a aparência e a transparência

Abstract

With reference to Rousseau’s novel Julie, or The New Heloise, we will work to understand as there are changes in the concept of imitation with the insertion in a modern world of appea- rances. Without a model universally immediate the imitation in modern digs the potential of the perfectibility of being human rather buried by deep historical contradictions, but remain tense in the experience of reality as a moving point between real and ideal. Dialectical ten- sion that permeates the very pass through the veil of modernity rousseanian viewed in the discussion on the imitation, which stands ambiguously as apparent in their tendency to precipitate in the abstract a resolution of these tensions freely lived, apart from each other, just inside the concrete historical process itself.