Last summer, Le Menthéour scoured the archives of the National Academy of Medicine in Paris to get at answers. He unearthed intriguing treatises, he says, that focused on hygiene, a term that then ...

What biographer would pass up a time-travelling opportunity to meet their subject face to face? This novel’s protagonist, ...

Today's quote of the day is the famous opening line of The Social Contract, written in 1762 by the French-Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His text questions the legitimacy of political ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Enlightenment philosopher dubbed the "Father of Romanticism," shaped ideas on freedom and nature. Today's quote of the day by Jean-Jacques Rousseau uncovers its deep wisdom ...

Two centuries after his birth, JeanJacques Rousseau continues to exert a potent and disturbing influence; we still have among us his ardent advocates, his bitter enemies. 1 For the most part, during ...

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 ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's unconventional advice on love letters reveals why the best expressions of feeling come from uncertainty. Discover the wisdom of writing from the heart without overthinking.

A meme on social media quotes my colleague Glenn Sunshine as saying, "If I had a gun with two bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, bin Laden and Jean Jacques Rousseau, I'd shoot Rousseau twice!" ...