Romantic and charismatic, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was one of the most influential personalities of his age. Nevertheless, his reputation as a thinker has suffered as many triumphs and reversals as the man himself experienced in life. He has been called not only a great philosopher but also “an evil genius, a prophet at once of fascism and communism, an enemy of reason and science…a mountebank, a psychotic and a freak.”
Now that Rousseau’s works have been published and interpreted in disciplined manner, the way…
