Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Not a nut, not a leftist, and not an irresponsible intellectual. January 2, 2017. ... in some aspect of Rousseau’s thought — the French Revolution, communism, ...

The idea of absolute individual rights is associated with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. ... The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the French Revolution directly reflect his ideas.

Portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Wikicommons Few philosophers in the Western Canon fell under as intense persecution during their lifetimes as Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778).

All in all, the Geneva-born writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose three-hundredth birthday falls on June 28, was a hard man to admire. ... blamed him for the violence of the French Revolution.

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 ...

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 ...

Jean-Jacques Rosseau, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour. ... in some aspect of Rousseau's thought - the French Revolution, communism, fascism, contemporary communitarianism, ...