卢梭在西方思想史和政治史上地位显赫，无需多说，他出于何种意图以及如何改变了文明人类的一些基本假设，却需要我国学界花费大力去探究。

Hilail Gildin is an American scholar and editor. He is currently a professor at Queens College, City University of New York. He is also the editor-in-chief of Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1962 by the University of Chicago, where he was a student of Leo Strauss.
Selected publications:
An Introduction to Political Philosophy, Ten Essays by Leo Strauss (H. Gildin ed.)
Rousseau's Social Contract: The Design of the Argument