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Selected essays / David Hume ; edited with an introduction and notes by Stephen Copley and Andrew Edgar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hume, David, 1711-1776.
- Series:
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Oxford world's classics
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Moral, Political, and Literary (1776 edition), which was even more popular than his famous Treatise of Human Nature, comprehensively shows how far he succeeded.From `Of Essay Writing' to `Of the Rise and Progress of the Arts and Sciences' Hume embraces a staggering range of social, cultural, political, demographic, and historical concerns. With the scope typical of the Scottish Enlightenment, he charts the state of
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; Chronology; SELECTED ESSAYS; Editors' Notes; Selected Original Notes and Textual Variants by Hume; List of Names
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxv]-xxvi).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-160572-7
- 0-19-159251-X
- OCLC:
- 714569717
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