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A philosopher who wrote with passionate eloquence about the heart and the human condition.
From: The Washington Post
Date: 20051218
Author:Michael Dirda
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Restless Genius
By Leo Damrosch
Houghton Mifflin. 566 pp. $30 The thinkers who matter are those whom the world can't agree about, and usually the more a writer, philosopher or artist polarizes opinion, the better for all of us. In modern times probably no genius of the Western world still ignites such passionate controversy as Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Only Marx, Nietzsche and Freud -- in many ways, his successors -- come even close.
Why is this? Because Rousseau blew up the edifice of 2,500 years of classical and Christian thought about the fundamental ...
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