Artforum, April 1st, 2006
ORPHAN ANTICS JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU: RESTLESS GENIUS BY LEO DAMROSCH NEW YORK: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN. 576 PAGES. $30. "Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains," wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1761, at the height of the Knlightennient. In that period of great optimism, at a time when many intellectuals focused on progress (or tried to help it along), Rousseau developed a conception of the individual and politics that was based instead on the loss of freedom and on our inability to remain ourselves in society. Yet rather than wish for a return to primal innocence, he developed a vision of ...
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