The pursuits of philosophy : an introduction to the life and thought of David Hume / Annette C. Baier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baier, Annette.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Hume, David.

Physical Description:

viii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

Summary:

Annette Baier has created an engaging guide to the philosophy of one of the greatest thinkers of Enlightenment Britain. Drawing deeply on a lifetime of scholarship and incisive commentary, she deftly weaves Hume's autobiography together with his writings and correspondence, finding in these personal experiences new ways to illuminate his ideas about religion, human nature, and the social order.

Contents:

Childhood and youth: loss of faith and a passion for literature

"At a distance from relations": writing his treatise in France

Hume after the treatise

Hume as librarian and historian

Hume's life as a man in the public eye

Hume's final years in Edinburgh

Death and character.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-153) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780674061682

0674061683

OCLC:

709670249