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About this book
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - philosopher, novelist, composer, educationist, political provocateur - was on the run. He was fleeing intolerance, persecution, and enemies who proclaimed him a madman, dangerous to society. David Hume, the foremost philosopher in the English language, universally praised as a model of decency, came to his aid. He brought Rousseau and his beloved little dog Sultan to England. And then it all went horribly wrong.
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 it is a very human story of compassion, treachery, anger and revenge.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Contents
- 1: Fear and Flight
- 2: Simple Soul
- 3: Always a Qualified Success
- 4: Plots, Alarums and Excursions
- 5: Exile with the ‘Friendly Ones’
- 6: The Lion and le Coq
- 7: He Would Always Have Paris
- 8: Stormy Passage
- 9: A London Sensation
- 10: Down by the Riverside
- 11: Together – and Worlds Apart
- 12: An Evening at Lisle Street
- 13: The Fashionable Mr Walpole
- 14: Flight from Reason
- 15: Three Slaps
- 16: Twelve Lies
- 17: Willing to Wound
- 18: Love Me, Love My Dog
- 19: Friends in Arcadia
- 20: Where Has My Wild Philosopher Fled?
- 21: After the Storm
- 22: The Truth Will Out
- Dramatis Personae
- Selected Bibliography
- Chronology of Main Events
- Acknowledgements
- Illustration Acknowledgements
- Index
- About the Authors
- By the Same Author
- Copyright