Jean-Jacques Rousseau - philosopher, novelist, composer, educationist, political provocateur - was on the run. In Rousseau's Dog, David Edmonds and John Eidinow bring their narrative verve to the bitt
At the centre of the story stand the philosophers themselves, proud, irascible, larger than life, and spoiling for a fight.'Those ten minutes shook the world of Western philosophy literally to its fou
But in 1972 along came the American, Bobby Fischer: insolent, arrogant, abusive, vain, greedy, vulgar, bigoted, paranoid and obsessive - and apparently unstoppable. Against him was Boris Spassky: co
