As Dietas de Rousseau: o caso do Emílio

Abstract

Deceitfully considered a peripheral subject, the theme of diets appears in different writings of Rousseau, comprising autobiographical and theoretical works, including New Heloise, and many other texts. It would not be different in Emile’s case. The purpose of this article is to address two formulations of this theme throughout Emile, namely: i) the preference for simple and vegetarian diets and, especially, ii) the relations between the diets and the author’s anthropological proposal, as configured in the Discourse on inequality.