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David Hume : historical thinker, historical writer /

"A transdisciplinary collection of essays focusing on David Hume as historian, and arguing that his "historical" and "philosophical" works are more intimately connected than scholars have often assumed"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Spencer, Mark G. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hume and ecclesiastical history : aims and contexts / Roger L. Emerson
  • Artificial lives, providential history, and the apparent limits of sympathetic understanding / Jennifer A. Herdt
  • "The spirit of liberty" : historical causation and political rhetoric in the age of Hume / Philip Hicks
  • "The book seemed to sink into oblivion" : reading Hume's History in eighteenth-century Scotland / Mark Towsey
  • Reading Hume's History of England : audience and authority in Georgian England / David Allan
  • Medieval kingship and the making of modern civility : Hume's assessment of governance in the History of England / Jeffrey M. Suderman
  • Hume and the end of history / F.L. van Holthoon
  • David Hume as a philosopher of history / Claudia M. Schmidt
  • Fact and fiction : memory and imagination in Hume's approach to history and literature / Timothy M. Costelloe
  • Hume's historiographical imagination / Douglas Long
  • The "most curious & important of all questions of erudition" : Hume's assessment of the populousness of ancient nations / M.A. Box and Michael Silverthorne.