Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Not a nut, not a leftist, and not an irresponsible intellectual January 2, 2017 More than 8 years ago ...

This is how Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the 18th-century philosopher and writer, describes the forgotten corner of western Switzerland where I recently found myself basking in the glow of a mid-spring ...

The idea of absolute individual rights is associated with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. A small plaque in the Old Town in Geneva commemorates his early years here.

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 ...

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 ...

Boris Litvin teaches at Stetson University. He works primarily on the political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau This article is part of the Agora series, a collaboration between the New Statesman ...

The philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau doubted the validity of previously socially constructed form, and, like Henri Rousseau did more than a century later, looked for answers within.

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.

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 ...

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