TY  - BOOK
AU  - Corbin,Stéphane
TI  - Between Gift and Necessity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a Language Anthropologist
PY  - 2018///.
							
N1  - 15
N2  - The unusual character of Rousseau’s theory of the origin of languages lies in its resolutely anti-utilitarian dimension. In fact, far from being the mechanical consequence of a necessity for men to regroup, languages, because they are for Rousseau the expressions of the feelings and passions which arise from a completely different trade between men, provoke a real symbolic break that institutes society on the transcendence of all contingencies. This is how Rousseau does a work of anthropology, identifying in this inaugural obligation to separate from itself, the foundation of language and gift
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-du-mauss-2017-2-page-241?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -