L egal experts across the political spectrum expressed alarm when the U.S. Supreme Court, ruling on Donald Trump’s claims to ...

We spent four amazing days in Paris during our trip to Europe last year. Paris is an iconic city home to some of the most ...

There is no need to recommend the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: the greatest of all critics of inequality, the purest social contract theorist of the eighteenth century (and simultaneously the ...

This portrait was painted when Rousseau was in exile in London as a guest of the Scottish thinker David Hume.This sympathetic portrait of Rousseau in Armenian costume was painted by the highly ...

In Chapter 4, I compared Rousseau to Charles Taylor and showed that Rousseau, who is so often regarded as a powerful but unsound advance guard for communitarianism, can be effectively deployed against ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Enlightenment was the dawn of our own age, reactivating ancient traditions of equal political status and citizenship and making Rousseau immortal for his concerns about ...

The anti-institutional ideology — rooted in doctrine spurred by 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau — was ...

By working the land, you've come to own it. Nonsense, said Jean-Jacques Rousseau, an 18th Century philosopher from Geneva who protested against the evils of enclosure. In his Discourse on ...

Rudolf Flesch, in tracing the roots of the word method he found so alarming, identified Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the original culprit. He was right: a profound disagreement over whether freedom or ...

Steven Howe offers a new angle on Kleist's dialogue with the Enlightenment by reconsidering his investment in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Where previous critics have trivialized this as ...

This chapter takes up Rousseau's justification of nature, as it is widely understood. That justification entails an account of nature so implausible and even strange that it is hard to believe anyone, ...

The last three chapters were part of an attempt to recover Rousseau. In the place of the Rousseau who slew nature for the sake of freedom, I have put a Rousseau for whom nature remains a guide and ...