In 1790 the Count d'Antraigues, an eccentric eighteenth-century anti-revolutionary spy, claimed that he had been given a sequel to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract explaining how states could ...

Access these resources as a member - it's free! Professor Hadley Arkes discussed Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ideas relating to the validity of governmental power that was included in The Social Contract.

Isaiah Berlin’s “Two Concepts of Liberty” introduced the terminology of negative and positive liberty in 1958. Berlin asserts that Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political philosophy (particularly “On the ...

This is the second post about my recently published book, "Rousseau's Rejuvenation of Political Philosophy: A New Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)." The deepest root of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ...