Heinrich Meier, “The Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men: On the Intention of Rousseau's Most Philosophical Work,” trans. by J. Harvey Lomax, Interpretation, 16 (1988-89): 211-228.

Excerpt:

Rousseau in the Confessions called the Discours sur l’inegalite that piece  among all his writings in which his principles “are made manifest with the  greatest boldness, not to  say  audacity.”  That does not mean, to be sure, that  the complete boldness of the book is obvious or immediately discloses itself in  its full measure at the first reading. The Confessions also tells us that when we  concern ourselves with the Discours sur l’inegalite we venture into a work that,  according to the pronouncement of its author, “found in all Europe only few  readers who understood it, and none  among them who wanted to talk about  it.”  We are, then, warned.

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