{"title":"Rousseau’s Shameless Beginnings","authors":"S. Anton","doi":"10.1080/13534645.2023.2198748","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Beginning is hard. It always feels so arbitrary. Things get easier, it’s true, once we’ve begun, for example by simply saying ‘in the beginning’. Yet once we’re on our way, we don’t know where we’re going. Having begun, we need a destination, an end, to finish beginning. Such an end allows it to take place so that it has been. Otherwise, it would be without preterition, imperfect. Without an end, beginning would be paratactic, repetitive – endless.","PeriodicalId":46204,"journal":{"name":"Parallax","volume":"28 1","pages":"291 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Parallax","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13534645.2023.2198748","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Beginning is hard. It always feels so arbitrary. Things get easier, it’s true, once we’ve begun, for example by simply saying ‘in the beginning’. Yet once we’re on our way, we don’t know where we’re going. Having begun, we need a destination, an end, to finish beginning. Such an end allows it to take place so that it has been. Otherwise, it would be without preterition, imperfect. Without an end, beginning would be paratactic, repetitive – endless.
期刊介绍:
Founded in 1995, parallax has established an international reputation for bringing together outstanding new work in cultural studies, critical theory and philosophy. parallax publishes themed issues that aim to provoke exploratory, interdisciplinary thinking and response. Each issue of parallax provides a forum for a wide spectrum of perspectives on a topical question or concern. parallax will be of interest to those working in cultural studies, critical theory, cultural history, philosophy, gender studies, queer theory, post-colonial theory, English and comparative literature, aesthetics, art history and visual cultures.