Few philosophers in the Western Canon fell under as intense persecution during their lifetimes as Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). After the publication and subsequent political and ecumenical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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)." No modern ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Professor Hadley Arkes discussed Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas relating to the validity of governmental power that was included in The Social Contract.