Rousseau - That Famous Enlightenment Thinker - Advocated Book Burning
Whew, Jean-Jacques, WYD? "Rousseau did not pull any punches: according to him, far from contributing to the purification of morals, the sciences and the arts had had the opposite effect. The progress brought about by the restoration of letters in the Renaissance had only been superficial, exclusively affecting appearances; in reality, letters provoke the degeneration […]