Mar 16, 2019
10 min read
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two Biases That Stop Us From Knowing Ourselves
Oh boy, did Rousseau have a lot to explain.
In 1745, he met Thérèse Levasseur, a barely literate laundry-maid who became his lover and, later, his wife. Thérèse bore him five children, all of whom he deposited at the foundling hospital — an almost certain death sentence in eighteenth-century France.
