Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

“Discours sur l’origine et les fondements de l’inégalité parmi les hommes,” Œuvres complètes de J. J. Rousseau (Paris: Dalibon, 1826), vol. 1 of 25, pp. 238.

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John James Rousseau, A Discourse Upon The Origin and Foundation of the Inequality Among Mankind (1761). This anonymously-translated English publication, which Dr. Meijer transcribed from a Library of Congress copy, preserved all of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s original footnotes, which is important for the history of eighteenth-century anthropology. The facsimile was published by Lenox Hill Pub. & Dist. Co. (Burt Franklin) [235 East 44th St., New York, N.Y. 10017] Reprinted: 1971.