by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Gottfried Herder
translated by John H. Moran and Alexander Gode
University of Chicago Press, 1986
eISBN: 978-0-226-92328-4 | Paper: 978-0-226-73012-7
Library of Congress Classification P116.O5 1986
Dewey Decimal Classification 401

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is important to semiotics and critical theory, as it plays a central role in Jacques Derrida's book Of Grammatology, and both essays are valuable historical and philosophical documents.