Rousseau racionalista: três leituras

Abstract

"Rousseau est-il rationaliste?". This question opens the first of the analyses that Robert Derathé dedicates to the Genevan. Derathé fits into a debate already matured in nearly four decades, and explicitly stimulated by Ernst Cassirer, whose thesis will be brought to the last consequences by Eric Weil. Here we will do a foray in the interpretations that Cassirer, Derathé and Weil suggest about Rousseau's rationalism, pointing to the peculiarity of the conclusions to which each of them comes, although all of them share the refusal to read Rousseau as a mere philosophe de la sensiblerie. In this perspective, the comparison with the Kantianism will become essential to understand the fecundity of the three readings.