An international conference to be held at the University of Leeds, 28-29 June 2012, under the auspices of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures and the School of English Plenary speakers: Dr ...

Thanks very much to Eugene for inviting me to blog about my recently published book, "Rousseau's Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy: A New Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)." No modern ...

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 ...

It is therefore worth coming to grips with his thought and its legacy. But like any major thinker, there are risks in summaries – some of which give us clues about Rousseau himself. Although he is ...

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 ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Rousseau's ideas on how to educate children so they retain their natural selves and are not corrupted by society. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of ...

This year’s Busan Biennale, inspired by David Graeber’s notion of ‘pirate enlightenment’, offers a glimpse into a world where progress can only be found outside the West.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a contestataire, a non-conformist, a rebel, a pre-revolutionary, whose remains were carried to the Pantheon in the aftermath of the French Revolution, to be buried a hero.