Romanticism and Speculative Realism by Chris Washington;Anne C. McCarthy;

Author:Chris Washington;Anne C. McCarthy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

In Rousseau’s state of nature there is no inequality at the ontological level of being and species, human and animal. Like Meillassoux, who sees the world structured by the irrationality of Hyper-Chaos, Rousseau’s fabulistic state of nature establishes the nonhuman as central to any egalitarian social-contract politics precisely on the basis of how irrational reality is. Pity, the elemental emotion of the state of nature, appears to precede reason’s manifestation, even its existence:

pity becomes stronger as the animal looking on more closely identifies itself with the animal suffering. Clearly, this identification must have been immeasurably more powerful in the state of nature than in the state of reasoning. It is reason that breeds vanity and reflection that strengthens it; reason that turns man inward; reason that separates him from everything that troubles and afflicts him.38

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