Rousseau was one of the Enlightenment's prominent figures.

In 1893, a French toll worker named Henri Rousseau quit his job to pursue painting. The untrained artist produced imaginative portraits, landscapes and jungle scenes, submitting them to Paris’ ...

“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 ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau is known as the "back-to-nature" theorist in education. He is referred to frequently in education texts as the originator of child-centered, natural means of education. Those of ...

IN the ten-volume edition of John Adams’s Works, Rousseau’s name occurs only a few times, and even then in the company of others. Yet Rousseau’s philosophy — his conception of society and government, ...

Voltaire, the most famous intellectual of Rousseau's day, rejected traditional religion, but he believed in a divinely ordered universe, and in rational morality as a divinely plotted cause that could ...