Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment (P.S.) - Softcover

"An enthralling account of a trifling provocation inflated to epic proportions."--Kirkus Reviews

"A detailed and fascinating reexamination of this story by David Edmonds and John Eidinow."--New York Review of Books

"As we've come to expect from Edmunds and Eidinow, their analysis of the personalities in question is sharp and engaging."--Los Angeles Times

"Sprightly and accessible . . . David Edmonds and John Eidinow have heightened intellectual feuds beyond the shallows of anecdote."--San Francisco Chronicle

The best-selling authors of Wittgenstein's Poker offer an in-depth analysis of the bitter quarrel between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, the two most important and influential philosophers of intellectual Europe during the Age of Enlightenment. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.