On the Origin of Language by Johann Gottfried Herder, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On the Origin of Language

Johann Gottfried Herder, Jean-Jacques Rousseau with John H. Moran (Translator)

186 pages first pub 1781 (editions)

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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 b...

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