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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Professor Williams teaches political science at DePaul University. Donald Trump’s claims about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, this month were bizarre and outlandish, but they worked. Within ...

One of the most beguiling debut novels to come my way in the last several years was French writer Stéphane Audeguy’s “The Theory of Clouds” — a novel in the same sense that Italo Calvino’s “Invisible ...