Rousseau has returned in recent acutely aware today of problems that
years to public esteem. Between the Rousseau in the 18th century was
two World Wars, he was condemned almost alone in discerning.
by Right and Left alike, seen as the This renewed popularity has its
forerunner at once of fascism and of negative aspect: There is a danger of
communism, an enemy of science Rousseau's being transformed again
and of reason, responsible for both from a philosopher into an ideo-
the excesses...