Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Not a nut, not a leftist, and not an irresponsible intellectual January 2, 2017 More than 8 years ago ...

Apart from being “brilliant writers” and “pretty strange guys,” Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche do not appear to have a lot in common as philosophers, says Barry N. Wish Professor of ...

He referred to his first and most important lover as “Mama.” All in all, the Geneva-born writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose three-hundredth birthday falls on June 28, was a hard man to admire.

Rousseau, however, became one of its rare critics, at least partly because the Paris salon, the focal point of the French Enlightenment, was a milieu in which he had no real place.