Philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his banned 1762 work 'Émile', observed that those with limited knowledge often speak ...

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 ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Enlightenment philosopher dubbed the 'Father of Romanticism,' shaped ideas on freedom and nature.

Rousseau’s famous line from The Social Contract reflects on freedom and control, reminding us how society can quietly place limits on human liberty.

Author of works on politics, education, music and anthropology, responsible for the best-selling novel of the 18th century and a notorious autobiography, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Swiss philosopher, explored how society binds individuals. His famous work, The Social Contract, argues that people are born free but become constrained by social structures.

In 1790 the Count d'Antraigues, an eccentric eighteenth-century anti-revolutionary spy, claimed that he had been given a sequel to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract explaining how states could ...

This essay seeks to explore the position of citizen sacrifice in Rousseau’s political theology from The Social Contract to “The Levite of Ephraïm.” To summarize, I contend that Rousseau’s political ...