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Thanks very much to Eugene for inviting me to blog about my recently published book, “Rousseau’s Rejuvenation ... and its vision of the sensitive artist as a moral preceptor, along with ...
This portrait was painted when Rousseau was in exile in London as a ... costume was painted by the highly talented Scottish artist Allan Ramsay. Rousseau's unusual clothing aroused great curiosity ...
In making this argument, Gerson suggested that Trump’s politics borrows unconsciously from the 18 th century Genevan philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Gerson may be right about Trump.
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.
The phrase was the opening sentence of a piece on the Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau that I wrote for The New Yorker in August. Now we know that the poorly educated—or ...
Thanks very much to Eugene for inviting me to blog about my recently published book, "Rousseau's Rejuvenation ... and its vision of the sensitive artist as a moral preceptor, along with Montessori ...