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Nov 2020
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "On the Origin o...

DAVID GUIGNION
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I present Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "On the Origin of Language" as a preliminary reading for Jacques Derrida's "Of Grammatology" premiering next week!

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