Why Are We Restless?

Part 7 - Rousseau's Failed Experiment, Except for One Success

Rousseau’s restlessness finds no resolution in citizenship, in the sociability of the married couple, or any other social bond. Neither does his restlessness find a resolution in solitude; not in his literature and not in his life. The Storeys assert, however, that Rousseau’s failed experiments in both thought and life are instructive:

Rousseau is like a…