Publicado em 1762, durante o período do Iluminismo, “Do Contrato Social” é uma obra de profunda reflexão e questionamento sobre a natureza humana e a organização...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau initiated the modern genre of autobiography, vastly influenced the development of the Enlightenment through his political philosophy, and helped develop...

A book in which Rousseau theorized about the best way to establish a political community in the face of the problems of commercial society, which he had already identified in his...

Emile is a treatise on the nature of education and on the nature of man written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who considered it to be the best and most important of all his writings....

Rousseau first exposes in this work his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical fiction, and of human perfectibility, an early idea of progress. He...

Opera autobiografica di uno dei più celebri pensatori del Settecento francese, ripercorre la vita, la formazione e il pensiero dell'autore in una retrospettiva...

Che cosa rende legittimo il potere? Quando obbedire alla legge significa restare liberi? Come può un popolo governarsi senza trasformare la politica in dominio di pochi?In...

L'autobiografia di un rivoluzionario "Ho detto la verità. Se qualcuno conosce cose contrarie a quelle da me fin qui esposte ... conosce menzogne o imposture,...

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among MenJean-Jacques RousseauWhat makes human beings unequal? Is it nature, or society?In this seminal work of political philosophy,...

Become familiar with the most important French philosophers, Michel de Montaigne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire. These figures have shaped Western philosophy; delve deep...