Impressions of Hume

"Impressions of Hume" presents new essays from leading scholars in different philosophical, historiographical, and literary traditions to which Hume made defining contributions. Hume has made a variety of impressions on these different areas; his writings, philosophical and otherwise, may indeed be read in a number of different ways. For example, they can be taken as transparent vehicles for philosophical intuitions, problems, and arguments that are still at the centre of philosophical reflection today. On the other hand, there are readings which are interested in locating Hume's views against the background of concerns, debates and discussions of Hume's own time. And this is not all. Hume's texts may be read as highly sophisticated literary-cum-philosophical creations: in such cases, the reader's attention tends to be directed at issues of genre and persuasive strategies rather than on argument. Or they may be regarded as moments in the construction of the ideology of modernity, and as contributions to the legitimation of a given social order. As the true classics that they are, Hume's works are typical 'open texts', which present their readers of all provenances with a bounty of materials and inspirations. It is the editors' conviction that the borders between these approaches are far from neat; and that as much cross-fertilization as possible is to be promoted. "Impressions of Hume" amply demonstrates the rewards of such an approach.

ISBN 0199256527   Pages 319 ISBN13 9780199256525 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 630 Imprint Clarendon Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Series title Mind Association Occasional S. Publication date 23 Jun 2005   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2005001179   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 192   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Introduction by Marina Frasca-Spada and P. J. E. Kail		1
		Hume's intellectual development, 1711-1752 by M. A. Stewart		11
		Waiting for Hume by Peter Lipton		59
		Meeting the hare in her doubles : causal belief and general belief by R. M. Sainsbury		77
		Transcendental empiricism? : Deleuze's reading of Hume by Martin Bell		95
		Sympathy and comparison : two principles of human nature by Susan James		107
		Hume's ethical conclusion by P. J. E. Kail		125
		Hume's use of the rhetoric of Calvinism by James A. Harris		141
		Quixotic confusions and Hume's imagination by Marina Frasca-Spada		161
		Hume's general rules and the 'chief business of philosophers' by R. W. Serjeantson		187
		Hume's 'meek' philosophy among the Milanese by Emilio Mazza		213
		Hume's fragments of union and the fiction of the Scottish enlightenment by Susan Manning		245
		Hume - and others - on marriage by Sarah M. S. Pearsall		269

This is a wide-ranging collection. What it lacks in thematic unity is made up for by its admirable breadth in method and style. Continental and analytic philosophy, literary criticism, intellectual history, philosophically-orientated history of philosophy, and biography all make an appearance here. The editors are to be commended for bringing together Hume scholarship from across the disciplines. Donald Ainslie, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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