"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains." The opening sentence of Rousseau's The Social Contract not only summarises his entire philosophical system, it also proves how important he still is ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Rousseau's Dog: A Tale of Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment by David Edmonds and John Eidinow 405pp, Faber, £15.99 The quarrel between the French writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau and ...