AUDIO BOOK

Discourse on the sciences and the arts

(1750)

Text composed within the framework of the contest of the Academy of Dijon of 1750, the Speech on sciences and arts answers a question: it was then a question of determining "if the restoration of sciences and arts contributed to purify the manners". Winner of the competition, Rousseau sees his essay, which goes against the current of the ideas of his time, very criticized but owes him a controversial celebrity. *