... liberal orthodoxy: the problem of “exit” in Rousseau illuminates not free choice but a radical democratic theory of flight and evasion. Second, the Introduction then establishes the importance of specifically Stoic understandings of primitivism, nature, and freedom in Rousseau’s work, derived in part from...

... carry the traumatic past forward into the future. Indeed, the two novelists' tragic depictions of a triumphant color line and the photographer's insistence on an idiom of black primitivism lent support to white supremacy in the twentieth century....

... anchoring the primitivism of high modernist thought, the chapter discusses the conceptions of “anthropological modernism” offered by Gregory Castle, Jed Esty, and Marc Manganaro and explains how considerations of Irish late modernism shed new light on the projects of “the new modernist studies” and analyses...

... (An tOileánach) by Tomás Ó Criomhthain and Twenty Years A-Growing (Fiche Bliain ag Fás) by Muiris Ó Súilleabháin, the chapter explores how the Blasket writers dismantle the Revival’s concepts of Gaelic primitivism while developing a remarkably thoroughgoing late...

...This chapter considers the treatment of primitivism and a radical incommensurability portrayed by Joyce in Portrait of the Artist and Stephen Hero as a means of reflecting on the legacy of Irish late modernist aesthetics and the ways its interrogations of modernist...

... are wrong and argues that a “fugitive” perspective on political freedom is bound up with the themes of primitivism and slavery in Rousseau’s political theory. Rather than tracing Rousseau’s arguments primarily to the social contract tradition of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, Fugitive Rousseau...