the eighteenth-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The choice is not arbitrary. While Christians may instinctively think of John Calvin, for good or for ill, as the most influential figure to be associated with Geneva, it is actually Rousseau who is far closer to the sensibilities of our present age. As one of the key intellectual progenitors of both the French Revolution and Romanticism, he exerted considerable influence on the ideological formation of the modern world. As one of Sigmund Freud’s heroes, his fingerprints can be found even on the rise of the psychoanalytic movement of
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