Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a Belgian independent filmmaker and self-proclaimed "filmmaker of the absurd". Defending a cinema based on limited budgets, ranging from €2,000 to €2,500 per film, with ...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishedThe Social Contract in 1762. He was 50 years old and already one of the most controversial thinkers in Europe. The book was banned in Paris and Geneva almost immediately ...

A meme on social media quotes my colleague Glenn Sunshine as saying, "If I had a gun with two bullets, and I was in a room with Hitler, bin Laden and Jean Jacques Rousseau, I'd shoot Rousseau twice!" ...

It is therefore worth coming to grips with his thought and its legacy. But like any major thinker, there are risks in summaries – some of which give us clues about Rousseau himself. Although he is ...