#NachrichtausBerlin for today (lightly modified + retranslated, from the evidently rather elusive Norwegian) : youtu.be/qGRPFM_JToc?t=2h10m7s — 2:18:30 (the fish—a reference that, I must confess, is lost on me…) The untranslated Rousseau quote—taken, as it happens, from his ‘Du contrat social,’ a somewhat more totalitarian follow-up to his ‘On the Origins of Inequality’ (the source of the first)—is the rather infamous proposition that “quiconque refusera dobéir à la volonté générale, y sera contraint par tout le corps; ce qui ne signifie autre chose sinon quon le forcera à être libre” [“whosoever should refuse to obey the general will shall be coerced into so doing, by the entire body; which means nothing else than that he shall be forced to be free”]. And, perhaps also of note: Danton himself would eventually be executed—at Robespierre’s behest, no less—in 1794…
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:49:40 +0000
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