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The work of Jean - Jacques Rousseau is presented in the series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thouhgt in two volumes,together forming the most comrehensive collection of Roussea`s political writings in English.This first volume contains the earlier writings,the Firs and Second Discourses ,the publication of which signalled the power and challenge of Rousseau`s thinding.It also includes Rousseau`s extensive Replies to critis of these Discourses.the Essay on the Origin of Lmguages and the Letter to Voltaire on Providence,as well as several neglected but important early writings,the Discourse on Heroic Virtue and the essay on the Method on the Composition of a Book.Broadly speaking these earlier writings may be viewed as primarily analytic or diagnostic.