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Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment

Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment

Edmonds, David
Eidinow, John

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Biographies GeneralHistorical Figures

ISBN10: 006074491X
ISBN13: 9780060744915
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: Apr 10 2007
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.34 Depth: 7.98
Language: English

In 1766 philosopher, novelist, composer, and political provocateur Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a fugitive, decried by his enemies as a dangerous madman. Meanwhile David Hume--now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language--was being universally lauded as a paragon of decency. And so Rousseau came to England with his beloved dog, Sultan, and willingly took refuge with his more respected counterpart. But within months, the exile was loudly accusing his benefactor of plotting to dishonor him--which prompted a most uncharacteristically violent response from Hume. And so began a remarkable war of words and actions that ensnared many of the leading figures in British and French society, and became the talk of intellectual Europe.

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