Quote of the Day by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: ‘Man is born free but is everywhere in chains…’

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract, published in 1762, critiques societal constraints on individual freedom. His ...

Quote of the day by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: "To write a good love letter, you ought to begin..."

French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s timeless quote on love letters and emotional honesty continues to resonate in the ...
Jewish Press

The Philosemitism and Zionism of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Few thinkers of the eighteenth century exercised a wider or more transformative influence than Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), whose philosophy and thinking marked the end of the Age of Reason and ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press

The terrible life and legacy of Jean Jacques Rousseau

A meme on social media quotes my colleague Glenn Sunshine as saying, "If I had a gun with two bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, bin Laden and Jean Jacques Rousseau, I'd shoot Rousseau twice!" ...
Daily Excelsior

The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Voluminous though it is, the Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau renders value for the reader’s time. In this two-volume work that comprises 12 ‘books’ (Book I to VI in Vol. 1 and Books VII to XII in ...