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).” ...

The Creux-du-Van, a crescent-shaped rock formation in Switzerland featuring 500-foot-high cliffs, remains much as it was when Jean-Jacques Rousseau visited in 1765. Of all the places I have lived ...

From where does this idea of “natural man” derive? In Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques (1776), Rousseau addresses this question directly, and in typically Rousseauian fashion: whence could the ...

Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) on the education of children, as set out in his novel or treatise Emile, published in 1762. He held that ...