It is said that the single ornament adorning the walls of Immanuel Kant’s sparsely furnished study was a portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Tradition also has it that the only occasion on which Kant ...

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains." The opening sentence of Rousseau's The Social Contract not only summarises his entire philosophical system, it also proves how important he still is ...

“I love the poorly educated,” Donald Trump said during a victory speech in February, and he has repeatedly taken aim at America’s élites and their “false song of globalism.” Voters in Britain, heeding ...

IN the ten-volume edition of John Adams’s Works, Rousseau’s name occurs only a few times, and even then in the company of others. Yet Rousseau’s philosophy — his conception of society and government, ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known as the "back-to-nature" theorist in education. He is referred to frequently in education texts as the originator of child-centered, natural means of education. Those of ...

The tradition of treating Rousseau as someone who's lucky just to be here lives on—but the work speaks for itself. "Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets," 2025. The Barnes Foundation, installation view ...