Lenne-Cornuez, Johanna
The essential or how to appropriate it
- 2021.
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Restrictive measures associated with the health crisis have sparked debates about our conceptions of what is essential and what is superfluous. It’s an opportunity to think with Rousseau, and to see in the essential not the purchased object, but the means by which one appropriates it, its mode of manufacture or the use that one makes of it.