Leo Damrosch: 4 books

Een rusteloos genie Verschijnt voor het begin van het Rousseau-jaar. Look and feel van Filosofie Magazine. Leest als een roman. Toont enorme invloed van het genie Rousseau op politiek en opvoeding. Turbulent. Dat was het leven van Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) zonder meer. Hij groeide zonder moeder...

Alexis de Tocqueville is more quoted than read; commentators across the political spectrum invoke him as an oracle who defined America and its democracy for all times. But in fact his masterpiece, Democracy in America, was the product of a young man's open-minded experience of America at a time of...

William Blake, overlooked in his time, remains an enigmatic figure to contemporary readers despite his near canonical status. Out of a wounding sense of alienation and dividedness he created a profoundly original symbolic language, in which words and images unite in a unique interpretation of self and...