The Life of David HumeMossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, this excellent life story is now reissued in paperback, in response to an overwhelming interest in Hume's brilliant ideas. Containing more than a simple biography, this exemplary work is also a study of intellectual reaction in the eighteenth century. In this new edition are a detailed bibliography, index, and textual supplements, making it the perfect text for scholars and advanced students of Hume, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. It is also ideal for historians and literary scholars working on the eighteenth century, and for anyone with an interest in philosophy. |
Contents
BOYHOOD AT NINEWELLS | 20 |
STUDENT DAYS AT EDINBURGH | 35 |
617 | 48 |
LAW VERSUS LITERATURE | 52 |
DISEASE OF THE LEARNED | 66 |
RECOVERY THROUGH CATHARSIS | 81 |
TRANQUILLITY IN FRANCE | 92 |
FEVER OF PUBLICATION | 106 |
FOUR DISSERTATIONS | 319 |
DRUM ECCLESIASTIC | 336 |
SCOTLANDS AUGUSTANS | 370 |
ESSAYS MORAL AND POLITICAL 134 | 379 |
THE INDIFFERENCE OF ENGLAND | 390 |
SCOTLAND FOR EVER? | 409 |
THE CALL OF FRANCE | 423 |
THE ADULATION OF FRANCE | 441 |
A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE | 117 |
ACADEMIC ILLUSION | 155 |
THE UNFORTUNATE TUTOR | 163 |
SPECTATOR TO A REBELLION | 179 |
A MILITARY CAMPAIGN | 187 |
A MILITARY EMBASSY | 205 |
ACHIEVEMENT OF AMBITION | 223 |
LEISURE AND LAUGHTER | 232 |
CITIZEN OF EDINBURGH | 240 |
POLITICAL DISCOURSES | 257 |
PAX ECCLESIASTICA | 272 |
THE OPPOSITION GATHERS | 286 |
William Warburton | 289 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND | 301 |
THE COMTESSE DE BOUFFLERS | 456 |
THE PHILOSOPHES | 475 |
EMBASSY SECRETARY | 489 |
JEANJACQUES ROUSSEAU | 507 |
UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE | 533 |
AUTUMNAL SERENITY | 559 |
DISTURBERS OF THE PEACE | 577 |
DEATH COMES FOR THE PHILOSOPHER | 589 |
THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN NATURE | 604 |
A Humes My Own Life | 611 |
Rankenian Club | 617 |
Textual Supplement | 628 |
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