Rousseau and the man in the nature
By Charlotte Stace
The CCCB brings the actor Jordi Boixaderas to the stage to serve us up a reading of texts of autobiographical confession that show the evolution of the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of the most prominent philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment.
Rousseau said: ‘Fools who always lament nature, realise that all your evils come from yourselves.’ Throughout his work, the French philosopher reflected on human nature, and on the passage from life in nature to life in society. Through this reading, Boixaderas will approach Rousseau's figure of the ‘noble savage’, one that’s become key to modern political thought and to the philosophy of education.
The reading will include excerpts from Rousseau’s most fundamental works: the Confessions, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, and the Essay on the Origin of Languages.