jean-jacques rousseau
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #116: David Lazar
“Becoming an essayist has always seemed to me as a bit of a pratfall.”
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Man Is Born Free And Everywhere He Is Being Pranked
You probably know Jean-Jacques Rousseau as the Enlightenment-era philosopher whose writings on the concept of the social contract helped ignite the French Revolution. What you may not know is that he had a passion for playing weird tricks on people,…