The Reception Of David Hume In Europe

Author : Peter Jones
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826463494

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The Reception of David Hume In Europe by Peter Jones Pdf

The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European 'fortunes'. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which David Hume has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of Europe. This is the first collection of essays to consider how and where Hume's works were initially understood throughout Europe. They reflect on how early European responses to Hume relied on available French translations, and concentrated on his Political Discourses and his History, and how later German translations enabled professional philosophers to discuss his more abstract ideas. Also explored is the idea that continental readers were not able to judge the accuracy of the translations they read, nor did many consider the contexts in which Hume was writing: rather, they were intent on using what they read for their own purposes.

Author : Roderick Graham
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 1841585203

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The Great Infidel by Roderick Graham Pdf

This is the story of the life of the famous philosopher, one of Scotland's greatest men. Through Hume's life, we are shown the Enlightenment from its roots, through its sometimes difficult growth to its flowering in eighteenth-century Edinburgh. Using original sources, some for the first time, we witness Hume's disappointment with the reception of his Treatise of Human Nature - 'it fell dead-born from the press' - although it is now seen as a pivotal work in European thinking, and follow his adventures during a farcical invasion of France. His Essays and History at last brought him the fame he had sought, but also caused the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland to attempt to excommunicate him. The accusation that Hume was an atheist is disproved while, more light-heartedly, his time as a diplomat shows him at the heart of the gossip of pre-Revolutionary Paris, where he was 'Le Bon David'.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X000119650

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Writings on Economics by David Hume Pdf

Author : Martin Fitzpatrick,Peter Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350012554

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The Reception of Edmund Burke in Europe by Martin Fitzpatrick,Peter Jones Pdf

Over the last fifty years the life and work of Edmund Burke (1729-1797) has received sustained scholarly attention and debate. The publication of the complete correspondence in ten volumes and the nine volume edition of Burke's Writings and Speeches have provided material for the scholarly reassessment of his life and works. Attention has focused in particular on locating his ideas in the history of eighteenth-century theory and practice and the contexts of late eighteenth-century conservative thought. This book broadens the focus to examine the many sided interest in Burke's ideas primarily in Europe, and most notably in politics and aesthetics. It draws on the work of leading international scholars to present new perspectives on the significance of Burke's ideas in European politics and culture.

Author : Gary Kates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350277663

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The Books that Made the European Enlightenment by Gary Kates Pdf

In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the text from its inception through to the revolutionary era, with wider aspects of the Enlightenment era being revealed through the narrative of the book's publication and reception. Here, Kates joins new approaches to book history with more traditional intellectual history by treating authors, publishers, and readers in a balanced fashion throughout. Using a unique database of 18th-century editions representing 5,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the 'erudite blockbuster', which for the first time in European history, helped to popularize political theory among a large portion of the middling classes. Kates also highlights how, when, and why some of these books were read in the European colonies, as well as incorporating the responses of both ordinary men and women as part of the reception histories that are so integral to the volume.

Author : Alan Bailey,Daniel Jayes O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441114617

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The Continuum Companion to Hume by Alan Bailey,Daniel Jayes O'Brien Pdf

David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher, historian, and essayist, is widely considered to be Britain's greatest philosopher.One of the leading intellectual figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, his major works and central ideas, especially his radical empiricism and his critique of the pretensions of philosophical rationalism, remain hugely influential on contemporary philosophers. This comprehensive and accessible guide to Hume's life and work includes 21 specially commissioned essays, written by a team of leading experts, covering every aspect of Hume's thought. The Companion presents details of Hume's life, historical and philosophical context, a comprehensive overview of all the key themes and topics apparent in his work, including his accounts of causal reasoning, scepticism, the soul and the self, action, reason, free will, miracles, natural religion, politics, human nature, women, economics and history, and an account of his reception and enduring influence. This is an essential reference tool for anyone working in the fields of Hume Studies and Eighteenth-Century Philosophy.

Author : Alan Bailey,Dan O'Brien
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474243940

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The Bloomsbury Companion to Hume by Alan Bailey,Dan O'Brien Pdf

David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher, historian, and essayist, is widely considered to be Britain's greatest philosopher. One of the leading intellectual figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, his major works and central ideas, especially his radical empiricism and his critique of the pretensions of philosophical rationalism, remain hugely influential on contemporary philosophers. This comprehensive and accessible guide to Hume's life and work includes 21 specially commissioned essays, written by a team of leading experts, covering every aspect of Hume's thought. The Companion presents details of Hume's life, historical and philosophical context, providing students with a comprehensive overview of all the key themes and topics apparent in his work, including his accounts of causal reasoning, scepticism, the soul and the self, action, reason, free will, miracles, natural religion, politics, human nature, women, economics and history, and an account of his reception and enduring influence. This textbook is indispensable to anyone studying in the areas of Hume Studies, British, and eighteenth-century philosophy.

Author : James A. Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521837255

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Hume by James A. Harris Pdf

This is the first intellectual biography of the British philosopher and historian David Hume.

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010104367

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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ... by David Hume Pdf

Author : David Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : BSB:BSB10071509

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The Life of David Hume by David Hume Pdf

Author : David Hume
Publisher : VM eBooks
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume Pdf

Moral philosophy, or the science of human nature, may be treated after two different manners; each of which has its peculiar merit, and may contribute to the entertainment, instruction, and reformation of mankind. The one considers man chiefly as born for action; and as influenced in his measures by taste and sentiment; pursuing one object, and avoiding another, according to the value which these objects seem to possess, and according to the light in which they present themselves. As virtue, of all objects, is allowed to be the most valuable, this species of philosophers paint her in the most amiable colours; borrowing all helps from poetry and eloquence, and treating their subject in an easy and obvious manner, and such as is best fitted to please the imagination, and engage the affections. They select the most striking observations and instances from common life; place opposite characters in a proper contrast; and alluring us into the paths of virtue by the views of glory and happiness, direct our steps in these paths by the soundest precepts and most illustrious examples. They make us feel the difference between vice and virtue; they excite and regulate our sentiments; and so they can but bend our hearts to the love of probity and true honour, they think, that they have fully attained the end of all their labours.

Author : M. A. Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192590565

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Hume's Philosophy in Historical Perspective by M. A. Stewart Pdf

David Hume was a highly original thinker. Nevertheless, he was a writer of his time and place in the history of philosophy. In this book, M. A. Stewart puts Hume's writing in context, particularly that of his native Scotland, but also that of British and European philosophy more generally. Through meticulous research Stewart brings to life the circumstances by means of which we can get a deeper understanding of Hume's writings on the nature and reach of human reason, the foundation of morals, and, especially, on the philosophy of religion. Stewart pays particular attention to Hume's intellectual development, beginning with his education at the College of Edinburgh, the writing of his Treatise of Human Nature, and his subsequent philosophical responses to criticisms of that book. He argues that Hume's scepticism set him at odds with the Christian Stoicism of Scottish contemporaries including that of Francis Hutcheson - and shows that this conflict played a major role in his failure to obtain the Edinburgh Moral Philosophy Chair in 1745. Stewart's detailed study of the physical character of Hume's surviving manuscripts in Chapters 8 and 9 provides the best available dating of his early 'Essay on Modern Chivalry', his 'Early Fragment on Evil' and the periods of composition of his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Other chapters compare Hume's theory of abstraction with that of Locke and Berkeley, provide the 17th and 18th century philosophical context of the central argument of his essay 'Of miracles', and consider the 18th and 19th century reception of his writings in England and Ireland.

Author : David Hume,Autobiography
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001929742

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The Life of David Hume, Written by Himself by David Hume,Autobiography Pdf

Author : Christopher Hancock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567657695

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Christianity and Confucianism by Christopher Hancock Pdf

Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics, sets comparative textual analysis against the backcloth of 2000 years of cultural, political, and religious interaction between China and the West. As the world responds to China's rise and China positions herself for global engagement, this major new study reawakens and revises an ancient conversation. As a generous introduction to biblical Christianity and the Confucian Classics, Christianity and Confucianism tells a remarkable story of mutual formation and cultural indebtedness. East and West are shown to have shaped the mind, heart, culture, philosophy and politics of the other - and far more, perhaps, than either knows or would want to admit. Christopher Hancock has provided a rich and stimulating resource for scholars and students, diplomats and social scientists, devotees of culture and those who pursue wisdom and peace today.

Author : Murray Pittock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780567629197

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The Reception of Robert Burns in Europe by Murray Pittock Pdf

Robert Burns (1759 –1796), Scotland's national poet and pioneer of the Romantic Movement, has been hugely influential across Europe and indeed throughout the world. Burns has been translated seven times as often as Byron, with 21 Norwegian translations alone recorded since 1990; he was translated into German before the end of his short life, and was of key importance in the vernacular politics of central and Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century. This collection of essays by leading international scholars and translators traces the cultural impact of Burns' work across Europe and includes bibliographies of major translations of his work in each country covered, as well as a publication history and timeline of his reception on the continent.