On the Origin of Language by Johann Gottfried Herder, Alexander Gode, John H. Moran, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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