This portrait was painted when Rousseau was in exile in London as a guest of the Scottish thinker David Hume.This sympathetic portrait of Rousseau in Armenian costume was painted by the highly ...
About 250 years ago, the pioneering thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) reinvented childhood. The Swiss-French ...
The primitive prehistoric idyll and the futuristic paradise are also tied together. The pre-historic paradise of equality ...
Read this excerpt from The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and remains a greater slave than they.
This portrait was painted when Rousseau was in exile in London as a guest of the Scottish thinker David Hume.This sympathetic portrait of Rousseau in Armenian costume was painted by the highly ...