On the Origin of Language

ISBN-13: 9780226730127 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 186 str.

Jean Jacques Rousseau; Johann Gottfried Herder; Alexander Gode

Opis

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.