On the Origin of Language

by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Gottfried Herder

translated by John H. Moran and Alexander Gode

University of Chicago Press, 1986

Paper: 978-0-226-73012-7 | eISBN: 978-0-226-92328-4 (all)

Library of Congress Classification P116.O5 1986

Dewey Decimal Classification 401

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.

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