First of all, the title. Jean-Phillippe Rameau (1683-1764) was one of the dominant composers of 18th-century France, and one of the most...

Everyone agrees that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a great author and very likely a great man. Some of his work, such as “The Sorrows Of...

We're told that of all his works, and there were a lot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau considered “Emile, Or On Education” to be the “best and...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been called a great many thing, both during his life and after his death – a philosopher, a political theorist,...