INDEX

accident, 5, 13, 15, 19, 20, 26, 48, 77, 78, 84, 91, 104

agriculture, 5, 10, 17, 20, 77, 93

Aristotle, 13, 119

Burlamaqui, Jean-Jacques, 36

circle, 12, 14–19, 25–7, 39, 41, 43, 46, 48–51, 53, 54, 56, 59, 64, 66, 70, 77, 79, 80, 86, 89, 91, 98, 105, 106, 108, 121, 133, 137, 138

of alienation, 46, 49, 50, 51, 66

of denaturation, 7–9, 17, 26, 46, 50, 59

of pure nature, 26

of reason, 51, 59

of the true origin, 10

Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de, 35

Cournot, Antoine Augustin, 26

Democritus, 24

denaturation, 7–9, 16, 17, 26, 46, 49–56, 59, 66, 68, 69, 76, 104, 136

denaturation of the denaturation, 12, 20, 82, 95–7, 106

Diderot, Denis, 13, 44, 119

Encyclopaedia, 119

Diogenes, 47

Eden, 4

Engels, Friedrich, 12, 19–22, 96, 100

Anti-Dühring, 12, 19, 96

Enlightenment, 2, 3, 8, 44, 59

Epicurus, 24

Fondation Gabriel Péri, vii

forest, 4, 11, 13–15, 18, 19, 26, 76, 85, 86, 93, 107, 116, 117, 127, 129–31

Glaucus, 47, 48, 55

Goldschmidt, Victor 6

Grotius, Hugo, 36, 41, 44

heart, 7–9, 16, 25–7, 56–61, 63–71, 81, 86, 87, 99, 134

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 35, 63, 71, 106–8, 113, 116

bei sich, 108

Gestaltung, 84, 106, 107

Handgreiflichkeit, 113

Philosophy of Subjective Spirit, 116

Schwärmerei, 63

Heidegger, Martin, 24

inequality, 2–7, 13, 14, 18, 35–7, 39, 47, 65, 71, 73, 74, 83, 96, 98, 104, 108, 111, 112, 119–22, 127, 137

Kant, Immanuel, 35

Leclerc, Georges-Louis, count of Buffon, 5

Lenin, Vladimir, 21–3

Locke, John, 2, 9, 32, 35, 36, 69, 73, 75, 82, 94, 127

Lycurgus, 81

Mao Zedung, 22

Martin-Haag, Éliane, 8, 16

Marx, Karl, 100

Capital, 12, 96, 99, 100

Marxism, 1, 2, 12, 22, 24, 25

Marxism–Leninism, 21

materialism, 2, 6, 16, 21–8

Matheron, Alexandre, 29

Matheron, François, vii, 6

Mercier de la Rivière, Pierre-Paul, 119

metallurgy, 5, 8, 10, 17, 77, 79, 93, 104

nature, 1–17, 20, 21, 26, 30, 33, 34, 36–49, 51, 54–61, 63–72, 74–90, 92–8, 100, 104–28, 130, 131, 133–5, 137

néant, 9, 12, 18, 19, 26, 84, 86, 106, 118 see also nothingness, void

necessity, 9, 10, 18, 24, 25, 27, 53, 71, 74, 90, 99, 101, 111, 121, 140

negation of the negation, 12, 14, 20, 22, 96, 97, 106

nothingness, 14, 15, 18, 19, 23–6, 28, 33, 48, 118, 130 see also néant, void

origin, 2–14, 18, 24–6, 33–9, 43–8, 50–7, 59–61, 63–6, 69–74, 76, 80, 82–4, 86–98, 100, 103–8, 111, 112, 117, 120–3, 125, 127, 130, 132–40

Plato, 11, 71, 81, 108, 111

Procreation, 127

Prometheus, 108

Protagoras, 108

Pufendorf, Samuel, 13, 36, 119, 120

reprise, 20, 22, 28, 136–9

Robert Derathé, 3, 38, 120

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (works) Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality among Men, 2–4, 13–4, 73

second Discourse, 3, 24, 28, 35–6, 39–40, 63–5, 69, 73, 76, 85, 87, 103, 108, 109, 127, 129, 132, 138

Emile, 7, 10, 16, 27, 81, 127, 134

‘Essay on the Origin of Languages’, 121

The New Heloise, 16

The Social Contract, 44, 73, 81

Rousseauesque, 3, 7, 10, 11, 13, 23, 35, 132

Rousseauism, 6

savage man, 4, 11, 15, 42, 43

savages, 5, 107, 112, 123

social contract, 2, 12, 20, 34, 74, 76–8, 80–2, 95, 101, 118, 119, 136–9

Spinoza, Baruch, 29

Starobinski, Jean, 3

state

civil, 37, 39, 42–4, 47, 72, 74, 75, 77, 78, 80, 81, 95

of nature, 2, 5, 7–11, 16, 17, 26, 33, 34, 36–46, 49, 54, 55, 59–61, 63–9, 72, 74–83, 85, 86, 88, 90, 92–4, 104–7, 112–15, 118, 123, 125, 126, 128, 130, 135, 137

of pure nature, 3, 8, 9, 12–14, 55, 56, 61, 64–70, 76, 78–90, 92, 94, 95, 104–8, 110, 111, 115–18, 121–4, 130, 131, 133, 134, 137

of savagery, 66, 67

of war, 2, 5, 37, 47, 56, 75, 77–82, 90, 91, 93, 94, 100, 104, 125, 138

trees, 13, 15, 16, 107, 108, 114, 117, 129, 131 see also forest

void, 9–12, 14, 15, 17–20, 24–6, 48, 71, 72, 86, 101, 110, 131 see also nothingness, void

Voltaire, 4

youth of the world, 4, 5, 10, 12, 14, 17, 20, 76, 77, 80, 93