Every book Leon Kass recommended on podcasts

Books recommended by Leon Kass

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   Emile

   Emile

   Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Discussed · 1 episode

   Emile is a foundational philosophical treatise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau that explores the nature of education and human development.

   Discussed

   “Look, his he he's concentrates on this in his educational writing in a meal on how to cure people from an improper sense of amo and and it is his treatment of this subject is perhaps one of his greatest contributions to to psychology and to social psychology.”

   EconTalk Leon Kass on the Wisdom of Rousseau 2025-06-16 Listen at 55:12

   Where to get it

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   The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau

   Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Discussed · 1 episode

   Discussed

   “A prolific political philosopher known for the social contract. A philosopher of education, famous for his a meal, author of a romantic novel, composer of seven operas, a theater critic, an author of the first modern autobiography, The Confessions, and even a scientist writing an elements of botany.”

   EconTalk Leon Kass on the Wisdom of Rousseau 2025-06-16 Listen at 1:31

   Where to get it

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