Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Not a nut, not a leftist, and not an irresponsible intellectual January 2, 2017 More than 8 years ago Jean-Jacques Rosseau, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour.

Few philosophers in the Western Canon fell under as intense persecution during their lifetimes as Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778 ... texts demonstrating the art of philosophizing in isolation ...

Trump’s inaugural address owes a great deal to philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (or at least one interpretation of him). Rousseau wrote of leaders who incarnate “the general will.” ...

This sympathetic portrait of Rousseau in Armenian costume was painted by the highly talented Scottish artist Allan Ramsay. Rousseau's unusual clothing aroused great curiosity on his arrival in ...

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. ... Artist Sherman or model Crawford: five letters.

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 ...