Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment

Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment
Author: Thomas W. Merrill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2015-07-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107108705

This work explores Hume's Socratic turn to moral and political philosophy as a response to the crisis of radical questioning.

Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment

Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment
Author: Ryu Susato
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2015-09-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748699813

Demonstrates the uniqueness of Hume as an Enlightenment thinker, illustrating how his 'spirit of scepticism' often leads him into seemingly paradoxical positions. This book will be of interest to Hume scholars, intellectual historians of 17th- to 19th-century Europe and those interested in the Enlightenment more widely.

Political Thought of Hume and His Contemporaries

Political Thought of Hume and His Contemporaries
Author: Frederick G. Whelan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-10-14
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781032925974

Intended for scholars in the fields of political theory, and the history of political thought, this two-volume examines David Hume's Political Thought (1711-1776) and that of his contemporaries, including Smith, Blackstone, Burke and Robertson. Political Thought of Hume and his Contemporaries: Enlightenment Projects Vol. 2 cont

David Hume's Political Economy

David Hume's Political Economy
Author: Margaret Schabas
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134362501

This collection of twelve new essays by distinguished scholars in the fields of history and the philosophy of economics is one of the first book-length studies of Hume‘s political economy.

Hume and Machiavelli

Hume and Machiavelli
Author: Frederick G. Whelan
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2004
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780739106310

Although there are myriad references to Machiavelli's work within Hume's writing, a deeper connection between the two has never been fully explored. Whelan uncovers extensive Machiavellian dimensions throughout Hume's work, illustrating numerous parallels in both theorists' treatment of such issues as human nature, historical method, and political ethics. While at first such a comparison may be startling, Whelan argues convincingly that Hume's writing, commonly regarded as moderate and amiable, is indeed a locus of realist liberal political theory.

Rethinking the Enlightenment

Rethinking the Enlightenment
Author: Geoff Boucher
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2017-12-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1498558135

One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and politics work together. Rethinking the Enlightenment bridges these disciplinary divides. Recent work by historians has now called into question many of the clichés that still dominate scholarly understandings of the Enlightenment’s literary, philosophical, and political culture. Yet this work has so far had little impact on the reception of the Enlightenment, its key players, debates, and ideas in the disciplines that most rely on its legacy, namely, philosophy and political science. Edited by Geoff Boucher and Henry Martyn Lloyd, Rethinking the Enlightenment makes the case for connecting new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of ‘Continental’ philosophy and political theory. In doing so, in this collection moves towards a critical self-understanding of the present.

Deleuze's Hume

Deleuze's Hume
Author: Jeffrey A. Bell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2008-12-16
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0748634401

This book offers the first extended comparison of the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and David Hume. Jeffrey Bell argues that Deleuze's early work on Hume was instrumental to Deleuze's formulation of the problems and concepts that would remain the focus of his entire corpus. Reading Deleuze's work in light of Hume's influence, along with a comparison of Deleuze's work with William James, Henri Bergson, and others, sets the stage for a vigorous defence of his philosophy against a number of recent criticisms. It also extends the field of Deleuze studies by showing how Deleuze's thought can clarify and contribute to the work being done in political theory, cultural studies and history, particularly the history of the Scottish Enlightenment. By engaging Deleuze's thought with the work of Hume, this book clarifies and supports the work of Deleuze and exemplifies the continuing relevance of Hume's thought to a number of contemporary debates.

Hume and the Enlightenment

Hume and the Enlightenment
Author: Craig Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1317323416

While Hume remains one of the most central figures in modern philosophy his place within Enlightenment thinking is much less clearly defined. Taking recent work on Hume as a starting point, this volume of original essays aims to re-examine and clarify Hume's influence on the thought and values of the Enlightenment.

The Infidel and the Professor

The Infidel and the Professor
Author: Dennis C. Rasmussen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0691192286

Dearest friends -- The cheerful skeptic (1711-1749) -- Encountering Hume (1723-1749) -- A budding friendship (1750-1754) -- The historian and the Kirk (1754-1759) -- Theorizing the moral sentiments (1759) -- Fêted in France (1759-1766) -- Quarrel with a wild philosopher (1766-1767) -- Mortally sick at sea (1767-1775) -- Inquiring into the Wealth of Nations (1776) -- Dialoguing about natural religion (1776) -- A philosopher's death (1776) -- Ten times more abuse (1776-1777) -- Smith's final years in Edinburgh (1777-1790) -- Hume's My Own Life and Smith's Letter from Adam Smith, LL. D. to William Strahan, Esq

Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I

Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century, Volume I
Author: Aaron Garrett
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2015-03-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191502758

A History of Scottish Philosophy is a series of collaborative studies by expert authors, each volume being devoted to a specific period. Together they provide a comprehensive account of the Scottish philosophical tradition, from the centuries that laid the foundation of the remarkable burst of intellectual fertility known as the Scottish Enlightenment, through the Victorian age and beyond, when it continued to exercise powerful intellectual influence at home and abroad. The books aim to be historically informative, while at the same time serving to renew philosophical interest in the problems with which the Scottish philosophers grappled, and in the solutions they proposed. This new history of Scottish philosophy will include two volumes that focus on the Scottish Enlightenment. In this volume a team of leading experts explore the ideas, intellectual context, and influence of Hutcheson, Hume, Smith, Reid, and many other thinkers, frame old issues in fresh ways, and introduce new topics and questions into debates about the philosophy of this remarkable period. The contributors explore the distinctively Scottish context of this philosophical flourishing, and juxtapose the work of canonical philosophers with contemporaries now very seldom read. The outcome is a broadening-out, and a filling-in of the detail, of the picture of the philosophical scene of Scotland in the eighteenth century. General Editor: Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary