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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.Includes 30 essays, most less than 5 pages, but references and footnotes are one per page that take up most of the 919 pages.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Andrew
Copley
David
Edgar
Hume
Stephen - Language
- English
- Series
- Oxford World's Classics
- ISBN
- 9780199540303
- Release date
- 1998
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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, drawin...