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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

This essay seeks to explore the position of citizen sacrifice in Rousseau’s political theology from The Social Contract to “The Levite of Ephraïm.” To summarize, I contend that Rousseau’s political ...

When a corporate will manages to masquerade as a general will, a society marked by entrenched inequality will find itself oppressed from within. By Boris Litvin “We believe political message reach ...

In the name of liberty and inherent individual rights, many people are refusing to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Demonstrators demonize political leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron who ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas, whether acknowledged or not, have permeated Western counter-hegemonic, progressive thought — modern and postmodern — for the last 250 years. Change the conversation, ...