X
X letter, 167–68
Y
Yates, Mrs., 99, 100
Yverdon, 38, 51
Z
Zaire (Voltaire), 99
“Z.A.” letter, 167
Zell, Madam, 223
About the Author
DAVID EDMONDS is, and JOHN EIDINOW was, an award-winning journalist with the BBC. David was educated at Oxford, John at Cambridge. Their highly acclaimed debut book, Wittgenstein’s Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers, was a national bestseller, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Prize, and translated into more than two dozen languages. Bobby Fischer Goes to War, about the famous world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, has been translated into sixteen languages.
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Rousseau’s Dog
“David Edmonds and John Eidinow have chosen a fitting arena in which to exercise their skills as analysts of intellectual combat. … In vivid prose and with a flare for literary detective work … Edmonds and Eidinow restore some balance to this legendary fight, prompting renewed sympathy for the unstable and unfortunate Rousseau.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Sprightly and accessible…. David Edmonds and John Eidinow have heightened intellectual feuds beyond the shallows of anecdote.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Offbeat, imaginative. … The authors’ most entertaining insight … is that neither of these giants of philosophy lived in accordance with his famous principles.”
—New York Times
“Rousseau’s Dog is a beach book for the brainy set, engaging and erudite.”
—Boston Globe
“As we’ve come to expect from Edmonds and Eidinow, their analysis of the personalities in question is sharp and engaging.”
—Los Angeles Times
“In this delicious little history, Edmonds and Eidinow dish up a juicy account of the feud between eighteenth-century philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Edmonds and Eidinow juggle a large cast of dramatis personae, and track the fraught coming together and falling out between Hume and Rousseau with a high level of detail. … The authors are deft at summarizing their protagonists opposed casts of mind.”
—Newsday
“A nimble and accomplished anatomy of a controversy set against the boisterous philosophical and historical backdrop of eighteenth-century Europe. Edmonds and Eidinow show the human face of the Age of Enlightenment (and offer memorable portraits of the cheery, obese Hume and the paranoid, insecure Rousseau) in this tale of an unseemly squabble between two famous contemporaries. Sheer delight.”
—Ross King, bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome
“For those who like to chew over questions of human motivation, Rousseau’s Dog is a juicy steak of a book. … Readers will end up taking sides, wondering why and how these people did what they did, and wishing that the book, the incident and the characters’ lives went on longer. What else can we ask of a book about a 250-word argument?”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“An enthralling account of a trifling provocation inflated to epic proportions.”
—Kirkus Reviews
ALSO BY DAVID EDMONDS AND JOHN EIDINOW
Wittgenstein’s Poker
Bobby Fischer Goes to War
Copyright
Illustration credits: page 1: Hume (Bridgeman Art Library), Rousseau (Bridgeman Art Library); page 37: Burning at Geneva (Getty Images); page 65: In the Salon of Four Mirrors (Réunion des musées nationaux); page 112: James Boswell (Bridgeman Art Library); page 122: notice for lost dog (British Library); page 190: Hume (Getty Images); page 197: Concise Account title page (courtesy of Nigel Warburton); page 250: Rousseau with Thérèse (Corbis); page 265: Rousseau with dog (Mary Evans).
Portraits of Hume and Rousseau by Allan Ramsay courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland.
A hardcover edition of this book was published in 2006 by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
ROUSSEAU’S DOG. Copyright © 2006, 2007 by David Edmonds and John Eidinow.
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