Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Social Contract outlines Rousseau's views on political justice, explaining how a just and legitimate state is to be founded, organized a…

“Thus I have acted; these were my thoughts; such was I.”Rousseau’s lengthy and sometimes anguished dossier on the Self is one of the most re…

This work presents Rousseau's belief in the profoundly transformational effects of the development of civilization on human nature, which Ro…

"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a w…

“The smallest, the most trifling pleasure that is conveniently within my reach, tempts me more than all the joys of paradise.”Here again is …

Emile, or On Education or Émile, or Treatise on Education (French: Émile, ou De l’éducation) was published in 1762 in F…