From the bestselling authors of Wittgenstein\'s Poker , the quarrel that shocked the world of Enlightenment.
And it is a very human story of compassion, treachery, anger and revenge..
It is a story of two men whose writings would forever shape our world, but whose personalities and ideas could scarcely have had less in common.
The result is a story of celebrity and its price, of shameless spin, of destroyed reputations and shattered friendships.
In Rousseau\'s Dog , David Edmonds and John Eidinow bring their narrative verve to the bitter quarrel that turned these two Enlightenment giants into mortal foes.
And then it all went horribly wrong.
He brought Rousseau and his beloved little dog Sultan to England.
David Hume, the foremost philosopher in the English language, universally praised as a model of decency, came to his aid.
He was fleeing intolerance, persecution, and enemies who proclaimed him a madman, dangerous to society.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - philosopher, novelist, composer, educationist, political provocateur - was on the run.
From the bestselling authors of Wittgenstein\'s Poker , the quarrel that shocked the world of Enlightenment
