Dublin-born writer returns with a novel pairing philosopher’s teachings with intimate, often devastating, story of a teacher ...

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 ...

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Say what you like about Jean-Jacques Rousseau, but he knew how to write a line. The Social Contract, the political treatise which earned its author ...

This is the second post about my recently published book, "Rousseau's Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy: A New Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)." The deepest root of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ...

Source: Wikimedia commons/Maurice Quentin de la Tour/Neel Burton Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born in 1712 in the Republic of Geneva. At the age of 16, he ran away from the city and the abusive engraver ...