Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Swiss philosopher, explored how society binds individuals. His famous work, The Social Contract, ...

Thanks very much to Eugene for inviting me to blog about my recently published book, "Rousseau's Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy: A New Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)." No modern ...

It is therefore worth coming to grips with his thought and its legacy. But like any major thinker, there are risks in summaries – some of which give us clues about Rousseau himself. Although he is ...

Few philosophers in the Western Canon fell under as intense persecution during their lifetimes as Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). After the publication and subsequent political and ecumenical ...

World Inequality Lab reveals that the huge chasm between billionaires and multimillionaires and everyone else continues to ...

GENEVA, June 28 (UNHCR) - "Man is born free but everywhere is in chains." This quote made the Geneva-born political philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, world famous. But today, as we commemorate the ...

At the age of 20 or 21, Rousseau returned to Warens in Chambéry, and their relationship turned sexual. Although Warens was ...

Few thinkers have left their fingerprints on the modern age as indelibly as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the tricentenary of whose birth we celebrate on Thursday (28 June).. He was a philosopher who helped ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas, whether acknowledged or not, have permeated Western counter-hegemonic, progressive thought — modern and postmodern — for the last 250 years. Change the conversation, ...

The epilogue focuses on the final writings of Madame Roland, who was guillotined in 1793. Unlike the other writers in “The ...