David Hume : historical thinker, historical writer / edited by Mark G. Spencer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spencer, Mark G., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hume, David, 1711-1776--Criticism and interpretation.

Hume, David.

Hume, David, 1711-1776.

Historiography.

Criticism and interpretation.

Great Britain--Historiography.

Great Britain.

England--Historiography.

England.

Hume, David, 1711-1776. History of England.

Physical Description:

xii, 282 pages : illustration ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]

Summary:

"A transdisciplinary collection of essays focusing on David Hume as historian, and arguing that his "historical" and "philosophical" works are more intimately connected than scholars have often assumed"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Hume and ecclesiastical history : aims and contexts / Roger L. Emerson

Artificial lives, providential history, and the apparent limits of sympathetic understanding / Jennifer A. Herdt

"The spirit of liberty" : historical causation and political rhetoric in the age of Hume / Philip Hicks

"The book seemed to sink into oblivion" : reading Hume's History in eighteenth-century Scotland / Mark Towsey

Reading Hume's History of England : audience and authority in Georgian England / David Allan

Medieval kingship and the making of modern civility : Hume's assessment of governance in the History of England / Jeffrey M. Suderman

Hume and the end of history / F.L. van Holthoon

David Hume as a philosopher of history / Claudia M. Schmidt

Fact and fiction : memory and imagination in Hume's approach to history and literature / Timothy M. Costelloe

Hume's historiographical imagination / Douglas Long

The "most curious & important of all questions of erudition" : Hume's assessment of the populousness of ancient nations / M. A. Box and Michael Silverthorne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index.

ISBN:

9780271061542

0271061545

OCLC:

847941616