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 ...

The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the French Revolution directly reflect his ideas. A modern version of this absolute individualism would be the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr’s Moral Man ...

The Reveries of a Solitary Walker was Rousseau's last book intended, it appears, for publication. Nearing the end of his life, persecuted by society and abandoned by friends, Rousseau demonstrates ...

Writers from Edmund Burke (who failed to find “a single good action” in Rousseau’s life) to the Israeli scholar Jacob Talmon, blamed him for the violence of the French Revolution.

If you think 'Les Misérables' taught you everything you need to know about the French Revolution, you might be surprised to learn that it was actually set during a completely different uprising.

Stories about the wealthy being subjected to misfortune have scratched a schadenfreude itch for centuries. Now novels are ...

Filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud to Accompany French President Emmanuel Macron on China State Visit (Exclusive) The veteran director will attend Macron's state dinner with Chinese president Xi ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – Maurice Quentin de La Tour (1753). Public domainBy any reckoning, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) is one of the most influential Western philosophers in history. No ...

Jean-Jacques Rosseau, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour. (Wikipedia) Thanks very much to Eugene for inviting me to blog about my recently published book, ...