The Importance of Rousseau

Alan Bloom wrote an entire book on Rousseau. He translated a meal when he was a professor at the University of Toronto, actually. The main thing that Alan Bloom is like, I think, patently incorrect about is he thinks that history is just run by ideas and has basically no materiality. After him, community, virtue, compassion, feeling, enthusiasm, the beautiful and the sublime and even imagination, the banished faculty had their innings against modern philosophy and science.