/lit/ - Literature

>visits a random forest near the city for a few days
>pretends to have found the original state of humanity and the principle of social organization

Nice research method, XVIII century's style.

Those texts might have a historical interest, cause they had a huge influence on what took place later, but the concrete issues treated in them can be today considered from other more relevant points of view, such a for instance anthropology concerning the so called state of nature.

Levi-Strauss mentions explicitly this issue, directly evoking Rousseau, in his famous 'Tristes Tropiques', as well as in a conference reprinted in his 'Anthropologie Structurale deux'.