Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Credit: Gianni Dagli Orti/Corbis
Today marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Swiss-born philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. His statement ?Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains? was revolutionary in its egalitarianism, and his writings represented a break with the Enlightenment and the emergence of Romanticism. Although he was a stalwart champion of the common person, he had little faith in the restoration of humanity to a ?state of nature? in which property did not exist. (In this way, Rousseau somewhat anticipated Marx and Engels, but he was pessimistic about the prospects of success for a communist philosophy.) He was a revolutionary tastemaker in the arts, and his novel ?mile continues to exert an influence on the study of child development.
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