David Hume: Historical Thinker, Historical Writer - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0271061545 ISBN 13: 9780271061542

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

This volume provides a new and nuanced appreciation of David Hume as a historian. Gone for good are the days when one can offhandedly assert, as R. G. Collingwood once did, that Hume “deserted philosophical studies in favour of historical” ones. History and philosophy are commensurate in Hume’s thought and works from the beginning to the end. Only by recognizing this can we begin to make sense of Hume’s canon as a whole and see clearly his many contributions to fields we now recognize as the distinct disciplines of history, philosophy, political science, economics, literature, religious studies, and much else besides. Casting their individual beams of light on various nooks and crannies of Hume’s historical thought and writing, the book’s contributors illuminate the whole in a way that would not be possible from the perspective of a single-authored study.

Aside from the editor, the contributors are David Allan, M. A. Box, Timothy M. Costelloe, Roger L. Emerson, Jennifer Herdt, Philip Hicks, Douglas Long, Claudia M. Schmidt, Michael Silverthorne, Jeffrey M. Suderman, Mark R. M. Towsey, and F. L. van Holthoon.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Mark G. Spencer is Associate Professor of History at Brock University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0271061545
• ISBN 13: 9780271061542
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 282
• Redattore: Spencer Mark G.