This book is about the break-up of the short friendship between David Hume and Jean-Jacques ... Diogenes and Rousseau. The Enlightenment was an attempt to supplant religion with philosophy.

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Written by prominent scholars of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy, this collection celebrates the 300th anniversary of Rousseau's birth ...

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

The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

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 ...

and not only because it produced the greatest egalitarian in the history of philosophy, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The Enlightenment was the dawn of our own age, reactivating ancient traditions of ...

Hume, who was himself an internationally eminent Enlightenment philosopher and historian, had facilitated Rousseau's escape from France to Britain in 1766. He also found him somewhere to stay and ...

Jacques Rousseau (French, 1630–1693) was a remarkable and influential painter of decorative landscapes and classic ruins. Born to Huguenot parents in Paris, Rousseau’s work was reminiscent of Claude ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau shared his with his long-suffering ... of London and is currently researching attitudes to solitude in Enlightenment Britain. She joins the medievalist John Henry Clare ...

Looking back at the entire history of the world is hardly an easy feat. How could a person possibly round up the most famous ...

Through the first three seasons of his NFL career, Buffalo Bills edge rusher Greg Rousseau has mostly been a solid contributor. The former first-round draft pick out of Miami has 17 sacks to his ...