Discours sur l'origine de l'inégalité

Discourse on Inequality

Author

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Language

French

Year

1755

Country

France

Genre

Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise

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Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men, also commonly known as the "Second Discourse", is a 1755 treatise by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, on the topic of social inequality and its origins. The work was written in 1754 as Rousseau's entry in a competition by the Academy of Dijon, and was published in 1755.