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David Hume Historical Thinker, Historical Writer.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park :
Penn State University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- COVER Front
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Method of Citation
- Introduction: Hume as Historian (Mark G. Spencer)
- Chapter 1: Hume and Ecclesiastical History: Aims and Contexts (Roger L. Emerson)
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: Artificial Lives, Providential History, and the Apparent Limits of Sympathetic Understanding (Jennifer A. Herdt)
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: "The Spirit of Liberty": Historical Causationand Political Rhetoric in the Age of Hume (Philip Hicks)
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Chapter 4: "The Book Seemed to Sink into Oblivion": Reading Hume's History in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Mark Towsey)
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: Reading Hume's History of England: Audience and Authority in Georgian England (David Allan)
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Chapter 6: Medieval Kingship and the Making of Modern Civility: Hume's Assessment of Governance in the History of England (Jeffrey M. Suderman)
- Notes to Chapter 6
- Chapter 7: Hume and the End of History (F. L. van Holthoon)
- Notes to Chapter 7
- Chapter 8: David Hume as a Philosopher of History (Claudia M. Schmidt)
- Notes to Chapter 8
- Chapter 9: Fact and Fiction: Memory and Imagination in Hume's Approach to History and Literature (Timothy M. Costelloe)
- Notes to Chapter 9
- Chapter 10: Hume's Historiographical Imagination (Douglas Long)
- Notes to Chapter 10
- Chapter 11: The "Most Curious & Important of All Questions of Erudition": Hume's Assessment of the Populousness of Ancient Nations (M. A. Box and Michael Silverthorne)
- Notes to Chapter 11
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
- COVER Back