Victor Gourevitch, “Rousseau’s Pure State of Nature,” Interpretation 16, no.1 (1988).

Excerpt:

Heinrich Meier’s important new edition of the Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality Among Men invites us to rethink Rousseau’s account of the state of nature, and more particularly of what he calls the “pure” state of nature.

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Interpretation [pdf]