Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment
A History, Philosophy, Biography book. It should be stated that this is not a philosophical text; Rousseau's Dog...
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.Rousseau's Dog is the fascinating true...
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Not philosophy. Not exactly history. Certainly not history of ideas in an detailed way. More like....biography meets 200 year-old journalism. I liked it mostly because it showed (a) how damn nutty these philosophers were, and (b) how petty they were, and (c) how they ain't no different than the rest of us apes. If this book throws a lot of light into a small corner of intellectual history, it serves well to reveal the very human side of those we now think of as very great. Hume and Rousseau croos paths, become vehement friends, fall out just as vehemently, and are subject to the shocks of life much as any of their readers today are, their... It should be stated that this is not a philosophical text; Rousseau's Dog is almost completely historical in content and only mildly grazes upon some of the central tenets in both thinker's works. But this fact shouldn't take away from the philosophical import involved in such a historical investigation; in my opinion, it is an example...
