AUDIO BOOK

Essay on the origin of languages

(1781)

The Essay on the Origin of Languages  (whose full title is  Essay on the origin of languages where it is spoken of melody and musical imitation ) is an unfinished posthumous work by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in which he reflects on languages and music, but also completes the  Discourse on the origin and foundations of inequality among men . It was begun around 1755 but remained unfinished and was published by Pierre-Alexandre Du Peyrou, Rousseau's executor, in 1781. *