Essay on the Origin of Languages

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ID23151978
AuthorsJean-Jacques Rousseau (0000-0002-7352-2315, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages257-310
Publication date2018-11-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueRousseau (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781316584804.005
OpenAlexW4242899766
ISBN9781316584804
LanguageEN
Citations received7

A comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau's important early political writings in faithful English translations. This volume includes the Discourse on the Sciences and Arts and the Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men - the so-called First and Second Discourses - together with Rousseau's extensive Replies to critics of these Discourses; the Essay on the Origin of Languages; the Letter to Voltaire on Providence; as well as several minor but illuminating writings - the Discourse on Heroic Virtue and the essay Idea of the Method in the Composition of a Book. In these as well as in his later writings, Rousseau probes the very premises of modern thought. His influence was wide-reaching from the very first, and it has continued to grow since his death. The American and the French Revolutions were profoundly affected by his thought, as were Romanticism and Idealism. This new edition features up-to-date translations, an expanded introduction, and an extensive editorial apparatus designed to assist students at every level access these seminal texts.

Art · Epistemology · Idealism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Romanticism · The arts · Virtue · Law · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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