In the latter half of the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Johann Gottfried Herder each composed an essay on a fundamental question about human language. Rousseau's "Essay on the Origin of Languages" is concerned with the development...
This landmark of the romantic movement not only greatly influenced the taste and morality of the eighteenth-century reading public but was also one of the most seminal and widely read literary works of its day. Seventy-two editions of the novel in French...
Unabridged English value reproduction of On The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and translated by G. D. H. Cole. Its publication in 1762 lead to great discussion about what is government on both sides of the Atlantic, and is still essential readi...