David Edmonds

Rousseau's Dog: Two Great Thinkers at War in the Age of Enlightenment (2007)

Rousseau's Dogthe is a compelling read and Edmonds & Eidenow present a good argument for the well-chosen title of this book. Although it may seem comical the title is crucial to the authors' thesis for the basis of the "war" between Enlightenment 'philosophes' David Hume and Jean-Jacques Rousseau...