La Préface dialoguée de Julie : le refus du dialogue ?

This article, firmly placing the intentionality of Rousseau’s text within its total historical context, takes its place in an important on-going debate about the meaning of the author’s creative works. Following the approach of Leigh rather than those of Derrida or De Man, it rests on the contention that Rousseau knew exactly what he was doing when framing, in 1759, the rhetoric of his prefatorial dialogue to his (soon to become) famous novel, a rhetoric addressed implicitly but principally to and at Diderot.