Among significant treatments of the

Discours sur les sciences et les arts , either independently or in connection with Rousseau’s other writings which spring most immediately from it, are Mario Einaudi’s

The Early Rousseau (Ithaca, NY, 1967); Victor Gourevitch’s 'Rousseau on the Arts and Sciences’,

Journal of Philosophy,

69 (1972); Havens’s 'The Road to Rousseau’s

Discours sur l’inégalité ’,

Diderot Studies,

3 (1961); and Hope Mason’s 'Reading Rousseau’s First Discourse’,

SVEC

249 (1987). The

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