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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    02 January 2025
    09 January 2025
    ISBN:
    9781009047227
    9781316517727
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009047227
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.567kg, 306 Pages
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    • Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, History, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Critical Guides
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, History, Philosophy, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Cambridge Critical Guides
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    David Hume's Essays, which were written and published at various junctures between 1741 and his death in 1776, offer his most accessible and often most profound statements on a range of subjects including politics, philosophy, aesthetics, and political economy. In Hume's lifetime, the readable and wide-ranging Essays acquired considerable fame throughout Europe and North America, influencing the writings of such diverse figures as James Madison and William Paley, yet they have not been given the same scholarly attention as his more famous philosophical works. This Critical Guide provides a series of in-depth studies of the Essays, as well as an account of the state of scholarship on the work. Thirteen chapters examine the Essays from historical, political and philosophical perspectives, with the aim of restoring the work to its rightful place among Hume's works and in intellectual history more broadly.

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