Frankist Memory in the Brandeis Family and the American Law of Privacy

The Jewish Studies Program presents a lecture by Dr. Nan Goodman in Gilman 17 on 10/21 at 12:30. This talk argues that we cannot fully understand the radical nature of Louis Brandeis’s privacy argument--in particular his focus on the “intense emotional life” and “man’s spiritual nature,” in his celebrated law review article, “The Right to […]

Rousseau’s Philosophy of Government

Gilman 479 Considering Rousseau as a philosopher may still sound like an iconoclastic claim – didn’the spend most of his writings criticizing the philosophes of the Enlightenment? Claimingthat Rousseau is a philosopher of government may sound even bolder – isn’t he usuallyconsidered as a mostly utopian political thinker? This talk will challenge these twoassumptions, examining […]