There is scarcely a modern intellectual or political movement whose seeds cannot be seen, rightly or wrongly, in some aspect of Rousseau’s thought — the French Revolution, communism, fascism ...

Rousseau’s Reveries are a useful antidote to this discontent, and provide, at least on the surface, a way to capture the “sweet sentiment of existence” and the accompanying happiness therewith.

In 1793, Jacques Louis David, the official artist of the French Revolution, painted the Death of Marat as a tribute to his slain friend, the revolutionary propagandist Jean-Paul Marat, in the wake ...

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 writes his greatest works at the height of the eighteenth-century French enlightenment,” he continued, “while Nietzsche composes his at the end of the nineteenth century, when the ...

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 ...

Crime Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Not a nut, not a leftist, and not an irresponsible intellectual Nelson Lund | 1.2.2017 10:29 AM ...