Pour Jean-Jacques Rousseau, la problématique est précisément celle-ci : comment ce « paisible et doux » Genevois s’est inventé précurseur de la modernité, inspirateur des idéaux républicains et ...

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 ...

He was a man who claimed to have abandoned all five of his children, as newborns, at the door of an orphanage. He broke with nearly every friend he ever made, including some who sacrificed dearly for ...

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 ...

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!" ...