Despite his love of hosting, conversation, and fine dining, Kant’s house was unadorned and austere. He had only one picture, which hung above his bureau. This picture was of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who ...
Two centuries after his birth, JeanJacques Rousseau continues to exert a potent and disturbing influence; we still have among us his ardent advocates, his bitter enemies. 1 For the most part, during ...
Epistolary novels, with narratives unfolding through letters and diary entries, first became a major mode of fiction in 18th-century France. Letter-writing had become a popular practice then, one ...