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The Philosophers' Quarrel - Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding (Paperback)
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The Philosophers' Quarrel - Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding (Paperback)
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The dramatic collapse of the friendship between Rousseau and Hume,
in the context of their grand intellectual quest to conquer the
limits of human understanding. The rise and spectacular fall of the
friendship between the two great philosophers of the eighteenth
century, barely six months after they first met, reverberated on
both sides of the Channel. As the relationship between Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and David Hume unraveled, a volley of rancorous letters
was fired off, then quickly published and devoured by aristocrats,
intellectuals, and common readers alike. Everyone took sides in
this momentous dispute between the greatest of Enlightenment
thinkers. In this lively and revealing book, Robert Zaretsky and
John T. Scott explore the unfolding rift between Rousseau and Hume.
The authors are particularly fascinated by the connection between
the thinkers' lives and thought, especially the way that the
failure of each to understand the other-and himself-illuminates the
limits of human understanding. In addition, they situate the
philosophers' quarrel in the social, political, and intellectual
milieu that informed their actions, as well as the actions of the
other participants in the dispute, such as James Boswell, Adam
Smith, and Voltaire. By examining the conflict through the prism of
each philosopher's contribution to Western thought, Zaretsky and
Scott reveal the implications for the two men as individuals and
philosophers as well as for the contemporary world.
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