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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 book "Of Grammatology," and both essays are valuable historical and philosophical documents.

On the Origin of Language

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    A Paperback / softback by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John H. Moran, Johann Gottfried Herder

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      Publisher The University of Chicago Press
      Published 15 March 1986
      ISBN-13 9780226730127
      978-0226730127
      ISBN-10 0226730123
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      Historical and comparative linguistics Linguistics

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      Book Synopsis

      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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