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We seem to be specializing in knock-down-drag-out clashes between men of titanic gifts. Our previous books focused on a ten-minute argument in 1946 between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper, and a two-month battle for the world chess crown in 1972 between Bobby Fischer of the United States and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. This time, we have become involved in a violent eighteen-month relationship in the eighteenth century between two of history's most influential philosophers.

In our earlier works there were dozens of witnesses to the central action, many of whom we were able to interview. Here, our wholly deceased cast live on, but only through their books and essays, and their vivid letters, journals, and memoirs. Our debts to the quick are therefore less numerous: nonetheless, they are equally heartfelt.

We have to start with Dr. Nigel Warburton, to whom we are profoundly grateful. Nigel had penned a fascinating article on the Ramsay portraits of Rousseau and Hume, and when we approached him about this he mentioned that he intended to write a book on Rousseau in England. Hearing of our similar intention, he decided not to write his book but instead to hand over all his notes. Later, he explained that this act of extraordinary generosity was motivated in part by an author who had been equally generous in donating all his research for a book Nigel has written on the architect Erno Goldfinger.

We like to walk the ground.
Wittgenstein's Poker
took us to Cambridge and
Vienna,
Bobby Fischer Goes to War,
to Reykjavik and Moscow. This time we retrod Rousseau's footsteps, in Switzerland along Lake Neuchâtel (in Môtiers, Rousseau's expulsion was explained by his predatory lusting after the young women of the village), and in England from London west to Chiswick, north to Staffordshire, and east to Lincolnshire. A tour of Strawberry Hill illuminated Horace Walpole through his passion for black rooms lit by a single candle. In Wootton, the Hon. Johnny Greenall, who has built a neo-Georgian mansion on the site of Wootton Hall, kindly allowed us to wander around the grounds, where we could pause in the remains of “Rousseau's grotto.” Several miles away, William Podmore, who as a boy had gone with his father to the original Wootton Hall, when it was demolished in 1931, to take possession of the great staircase and the grotto, showed us both purchases—lovingly reconstructed. On David's first trip around Staffordshire, accompanied by the philosopher and writer Jonathan Rée, they were shepherded by Wootton-based artists Simon and Jo Munby through the area's maze of fields and narrow country lanes. In Chiswick, local historians James Wisdom and Val Bott shared their passion for the area with the present authors over lunch in their Chiswick home. Their tour of Chiswick was so vivid that the eighteenth-century village rose up before our eyes, while the busy roundabout on the A40 magically vanished. Carolyn Hammond, at Chiswick Library, prepared the microfiches and rate-books for our perusal and then in her spare time tracked down some fascinating documentation on Rousseau's Chiswick landlord.

John would like to acknowledge two engrossing and scholarly lectures in the Wallace Collection series Fleshly Olympus: Libertine and Liberty: Literature in the Age of Reason by Professor David Coward, and Drawing Room to Picture Frame: Women and Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century by Stella Tillyard.

David would like to thank the staff in the British Library, who make this as pleasant a salt mine as an author could hope for. John would like to salute the London Library: an essential resource in the helpfulness of its staff, the browsing permitted by its open shelves, the breadth of its collection, and the freedom to take out its books, even original volumes of eighteenth-century journals.

We are indebted to our hawk-eyed readers and experts who read all or parts of the manuscript, and identified errors of fact or interpretation. They are Hannah Edmonds, David Franklin, Peter Mangold, Derek Matravers, Christopher Dickson, Jonathan Rée, Zina Rohan, Neville Shack, Christopher Tugendhat, Nigel Warburton, Andrew Yorke. A few of these readers are now our text-checking veterans, having performed a similarly unremunerated service for the previous books. Simon Gray put aside work on his drama for a comprehensive reading of ours, its meaning and moral. Marilyn Butler discussed with us Rousseau's literary legacy.

Our story not only spanned the English Channel, it involved a culture that assumed a knowledge of Latin and its classic works. Several linguists helped with or checked translations in French and Latin and explicated the references in each language: Sara Beck, Hannah Edmonds, Elisabeth Eidinow, Esther Eidinow, Sam Eidinow, Isabel Raphael. In Paris, Catherine and Gérard Hubert zestfully followed up our research requests, as did Christopher Dickson in Switzerland. From Geneva, Alfred Dufour put his deep knowledge of that city's history at our disposal.

The book would not have been possible without the superb professional skills and support of our agent and publishers: at David Higham, Jacqueline Kom, Georgina Ruffhead and Ania Corless; at Faber Julian Loose, and Henry Volans; at Ecco, Julia Serebrinsky, Lee Boudreaux, Gheña Glijansky, Marty Karlow, and Jane Beirn.