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…
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