Book · 1755 · Nonfiction

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

Name: Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Hackett Pub. Co. · 92 pages

★ 7.2 editorial score

The first man to fence a field and say this is mine founded civil society, Rousseau writes, and ruined it. His case against progress split the Enlightenment and still unsettles readers.

Genre

Philosophy

Subject

State of nature Private property Civilization Social contract

Time

1755Depicts Age of Enlightenment

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