A Discourse on Inequality Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau Translated with an introduction and notes by Maurice Cranston. The discourse sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege...Probably the most influential of all Rousseau's works, the political and social arguments wer... more »e to make the discourse a classic denunciation of the social conditions of his home.« less