{"id":8541,"date":"2012-06-28T07:31:31","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T11:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=8541"},"modified":"2012-06-26T16:32:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T20:32:05","slug":"happy-b-day-jean-jacques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/happy-b-day-jean-jacques\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy B-Day, Jean-Jacques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/rousseau.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8543 lazyload\" title=\"rousseau\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/rousseau.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"223\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 214px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 214\/223;\" \/><\/a>Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born\u00a0today 300 years ago. May be the occasion to spend a few hours reading into what is one of the greatest, if not the greatest (sorry, Augustine&#8230;) autobiographies, his <em>Confessions<\/em>. And then you can also check him out from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau\">here<\/a>, &amp; read on&#8230; Or, if more theoretically inclined, reread part II of Jacques Derrida&#8217;s <em>Of<\/em>\u00a0<em>Grammatology<\/em>. \u00a0One can only love (or, perhaps, hate) the breath-taking brashness of the opening of the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Je forme une entreprise qui n&#8217;eut jamais d&#8217;exemple et dont l&#8217;ex\u00e9cution n&#8217;aura point d&#8217;imitateur. Je veux montrer \u00e0 mes semblables un homme dans toute la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 de la nature; et cet homme ce sera moi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moi seul. Je sens mon coeur et je connais les hommes. Je ne suis fait comme aucun de ceux que j&#8217;ai vus; j&#8217;ose croire n&#8217;\u00eatre fait comme aucun de ceux qui existent. Si je ne vaux pas mieux, au moins je suis autre. Si la nature a bien ou mal fait de briser le moule dans lequel elle m&#8217;a jet\u00e9, c&#8217;est ce dont on ne peut juger qu&#8217;apr\u00e8s m&#8217;avoir lu.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born\u00a0today 300 years ago. May be the occasion to spend a few hours reading into what is one of the greatest, if not the greatest (sorry, Augustine&#8230;) autobiographies, his Confessions. And&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1237],"tags":[1236],"class_list":["post-8541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","tag-jean-jacques-rousseau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8541"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8548,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8541\/revisions\/8548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}