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Episode 86: Jason Frank - The Democratic Sublime

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The Lawgiver and the Social Contract

The lawgiver is a figure of democratic autonomies inevitable reliance or elicitation of some kind of heteronomic support, right? That is what i think. I don't think it's just a place holder for, you know, he invokes a sublime reasoning. M rousseau says, he persuades without convincing cause you don't agree and we don't yet have the conceptual vocabulary to be rationally convinced. So there is some kind of orical persuasion, disciplinary shaping that's going on. And rousseau, at those moments explicitly invokes a rhetorical or or o an aesthetic register for that work of political education.

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