Claudia Moscovici
23.09.2019

Romantic Ethics: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78), considered along with Goethe to be one of the fathers of Romanticism, can rightfully claim paternity to many other important concepts and movements in Western culture, including an arguably democratic version of the social contract and the republican model of citizenship. Yet it is his nuanced, early Romantic description of human passion […]