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6. 1254b26–32. 3 Social Contract, 353. 2 25 CHAPTER ONE to politics and culture? ”4 He illustrates the point with a story taken from HelvCtius, where a man’s timid glances, uncertain bearing, and hanging head are taken as announcements of his political subjugation. What Rousseau deduces, however, is a refreshing absence of courtier affectation, thus the manly exterior of an honest citizen. ”5 For Rousseau the body inescapably signals a state of mind, but interpreting the bodily signals returns us, again, to sociopolitical analysis.
The complexity of pity’s mediations is performed in a discussion of Mandeville; Rousseau notices “with pleasure” that Mandeville must adopt an uncharacteristically vibrant style in order to depict compassion. ). , 223. , 221. 15 The original French is les spectacles. 17 For Rousseau, the complex pleasures of the sensational are inaccessible (and irrelevant) for those in whom sentience alone guarantees right action. “Nature commands every animal, and beasts obey” (141): in political terms, nonreflective animals are ruled by instinct, or the body’s mechanistic response to the senses, whereas the ability to disobey belongs to creatures who can live outside themselves in the flux of memory, imagination, and history.
But after reflecting on her abased condition—she’s a “slut” (salope) who sells herself even to sea captains6—he is sure this condition must correspond to some repulsive flaw, which he promptly finds, and just in the nick of time. 7 It is not a question here of finding causes or origins but of preserving a correlation between the natural and the human. The slave’s insolence and the courtesan’s malformity both preserve that correlation by offering embodied signification of political and moral process.