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 ...

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 ...

International Theory, Vol. 11, Issue. 1, p. 110. Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been cast as a champion of Enlightenment and a beacon of Romanticism, a father figure of radical revolutionaries and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...