The Life of David Hume

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Clarendon Press, 2001 - 709 Seiten
Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, this excellent life story is now reissued in paperback, in response to an overwhelming interest in Hume's brilliant ideas. Containing more than a simple biography, this exemplary work is also a study of intellectual reaction in the eighteenth century. In this new edition are a detailed bibliography, index, and textual supplements, making it the perfect text for scholars and advanced students of Hume, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. It is also ideal for historians and literary scholars working on the eighteenth century, and for anyone with an interest in philosophy.

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BOYHOOD AT NINEWELLS
20
STUDENT DAYS AT EDINBURGH
35
617
48
LAW VERSUS LITERATURE
52
DISEASE OF THE LEARNED
66
RECOVERY THROUGH CATHARSIS
81
TRANQUILLITY IN FRANCE
92
FEVER OF PUBLICATION
106
FOUR DISSERTATIONS
319
DRUM ECCLESIASTIC
336
SCOTLANDS AUGUSTANS
370
ESSAYS MORAL AND POLITICAL 134
379
THE INDIFFERENCE OF ENGLAND
390
SCOTLAND FOR EVER?
409
THE CALL OF FRANCE
423
THE ADULATION OF FRANCE
441

A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE
117
ACADEMIC ILLUSION
155
THE UNFORTUNATE TUTOR
163
SPECTATOR TO A REBELLION
179
A MILITARY CAMPAIGN
187
A MILITARY EMBASSY
205
ACHIEVEMENT OF AMBITION
223
LEISURE AND LAUGHTER
232
CITIZEN OF EDINBURGH
240
POLITICAL DISCOURSES
257
PAX ECCLESIASTICA
272
THE OPPOSITION GATHERS
286
William Warburton
289
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND
301
THE COMTESSE DE BOUFFLERS
456
THE PHILOSOPHES
475
EMBASSY SECRETARY
489
JEANJACQUES ROUSSEAU
507
UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE
533
AUTUMNAL SERENITY
559
DISTURBERS OF THE PEACE
577
DEATH COMES FOR THE PHILOSOPHER
589
THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE
604
A Humes My Own Life
611
Rankenian Club
617
Textual Supplement
628
Index
660
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E.C. Mossner was formerly Professor of English at the University of Texas.

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