Hume: An Intellectual Biography
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (975 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521837251 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 633 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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The goal is to reveal Hume as a man intensely concerned with the realization of an ideal of open-minded, objective, rigorous, dispassionate dialogue about all the principal questions faced by his age.. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire career of one of Britain's greatest men of letters. It sets in biographical and historical context all of Hume's works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England, bringing to light the major influences on the course of Hume's intellectual development, and paying careful attention to the differences between the wide variety of literary genres with which Hume experimented. The major events in Hume's life are fully described, but the main focus is on Hume's intentions as a philosophical analyst of human nature, politics, commerce, English history, and religion. Careful attention is paid to Hume's intellectual relations with his contemporaries
"Very Good; Very Good; 4.5 Stars R. Albin This is the first major biography of Hume in a long time. The prior standard biography by EC Mossner was published initially in the 1950s and revised modestly in the 1970s. Mossner's enjoyable book focused on Hume's personal life and what might be termed his professional success as a l. .5 Stars" according to R. Albin. This is the first major biography of Hume in a long time. The prior standard biography by EC Mossner was published initially in the 1950s and revised modestly in the 1970s. Mossner's enjoyable book focused on Hume's personal life and what might be termed his professional success as a l. Surpasses the True Scotsman introduction. The introduction is a bit uninteresting, focusing on how we should view Hume - as philosopher or man of letters. But the substance of the book is mostly excellent: Hume in intellectual context.. Quite Good RogerMcguinn Writing a proper biography of an intellectual subject presents the author of history with a difficult task. When your subject is a writer, or, worse yet, a philosopher, reflecting on the relationship between their thinking and their personal experiences in a way that is both entertaini
He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (2013) and the coeditor with Aaron Garrett of Scottish Philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment, Volume 1 (2015). Harris is Reader in the History of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy (2
It is a well-thought-out biography which is as good as or better than anything written on Hume's thought. Harris has absorbed all that is now known of the details of Hume's life and of his reading, and deploys this knowledge to offer powerful, consistently intelligent readings of the whole range of Hume's works." John Robertson, University of Cambridge"Harris' magnificent intellectual biography of Hume sweeps away stereotypes of this major philosophical thinker that have accumulated over the past 250 years. Wright, Central Michigan University"A superbly researched and beautifully written biography which paints a nuanced and compelling portrait of a Hume we can all believe in. As such, it covers the full trajectory of Hume's intellectual career - from his earliest experiments in epistemology and ethics, through his views on religion, economics, and politics, to his mature efforts to complete his classic History of England. A significant place is given to Hume's 'anatomy'