Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 2010
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“historical would claim that the French Revolution was basically a consequence of philosophers like Rousseau publishing their anti-monarchical and, you know, sort of proto-republican ideas in books like The Social Contract.”
James Marriott, Guest on EconTalkThe Death of Reading (with James Marriott) 9/21/26
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