This book is about the break-up of the short friendship between David Hume and Jean-Jacques ... of Hume and Rousseau. The authors of this book call the affair “An Enlightenment Quarrel ...

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

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 ...

Instead, she posits that cynicism emerged in the works of French Enlightenment philosophers, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot. She explains how eighteenth-century theories of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Later, during the Enlightenment, as the West moved to ... Surprisingly, Kaldellis identifies Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the Western theorist closest to the Byzantine tradition, citing passages ...

History is a funny thing, and we are living in truly historic times. There are several adages about history that most of us are familiar with, such as “those who fail to learn from the past are doomed ...

Philosophers such as Thomas Hobbes had long used the term “state of nature” to describe an anarchic, “brutish,” social setting, but in the eighteenth century, the Enlightenment philosopher ...

The story seems to have surfaced in the writings of Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau around 1767, but he just attributes if to ‘a great princess’. But since Antoinette was a chi ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, and Montesquieu wrote on reason, individual rights, and the pursuit of knowledge. Paris ...