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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"--
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2013]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.