Selected Essays (The ^AWorld's Classics) - Softcover

Hume, David

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9780192830722: Selected Essays (The ^AWorld's Classics)

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ISBN 10: 0192830724 ISBN 13: 9780192830722

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

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In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.
As seen in these selections, Hume embraces a staggering range of social, cultural, political, demographic, and historical concerns, charting the state of civil society, manners, morals, and taste, and the development of political economy in the mid-eighteenth century. These essays represent not only those areas where Hume's arguments representative of his age, but also where he is strikingly innovative.

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David Hume (1711-1776) was a Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian, as well as an important figure of Western philosophy and of the Scottish Enlightenment. Stephen Copley is at University of Wales, Cardiff. Andrew Edgar is at University of Wales, Cardiff.

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