Early Responses to Hume's Life and Reputation: Volumes 9 and 10 (Early Responses to Hume, Volumes 9 and 10)

ISBN 10: 1855067994 / ISBN 13: 9781855067998

Published by Thoemmes Continuum, 2003

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In English.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Early Responses to Hume's Life and Reputation: Volumes 9 and 10 (Early Responses to Hume, Volumes 9 and 10)
• Publisher: Thoemmes Continuum
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1855067994
• ISBN 13: 9781855067998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

During the latter half of his life, David Hume (1711-1776) achieved international celebrity status as a great philosopher and historian. The sceptical and anti-religious bent of his works generated hundreds of critical responses, many of which were scholarly commentaries. Other writers, though, focused less on Hume's specific publications and more on his reputation as a famous public figure. Wittingly or unwittingly, Hume was involved in many controversies: the attempts to excommunicate him from the Church of Scotland; his paradoxically close association with several Scottish clergymen; his quarrel with Jean Jacques Rousseau; his approach to his own death. Hume's enemies attacked his public character while his allies defended it. Friends and foes alike recorded anecdotes about him which appeared after his death in scattered periodicals and books. Hume's biographers have drawn liberally on this material, but in most cases the original sources are only summarized or briefly quoted. This set presents dozens of these biographically-related discussions of Hume in their most complete form, reset, annotated and introduced by James Fieser. The editor also provides the most detailed bibliographies yet compiled of Hume's writings and the early responses to them. These two volumes form the final part of the major "Early Responses to Hume" series, and they conclude with an index to the complete ten-volume collection. Like earlier sets in the series, these books should be welcomed by historians and Hume scholars all over the world, and research libraries should see them as important additions to holdings on the Scottish Enlightenment.

About the Author

James Fieser teaches philosophy at the University of Tennessee at Martin, and is founder-editor of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His many publications include the highly acclaimed Early Responses to Hume series (10 vols, Thoemmes Press, 1999-2003)