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 ...

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 ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his seminal work The Social Contract (1762), observed that "Man is born good; society corrupts him." Criminal behaviour, therefore, is not innate but a product of social ...

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 ...