The Reception of David Hume In Europe

Author:   Professor Peter Jones (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Pages:   434
Publication Date:   03 January 2013
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The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European 'fortunes'. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which David Hume has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of Europe. This is the first collection of essays to consider how and where Hume's works were initially understood throughout Europe. They reflect on how early European responses to Hume relied on available French translations, and concentrated on his Political Discourses and his History, and how later German translations enabled professional philosophers to discuss his more abstract ideas. Also explored is the idea that continental readers were not able to judge the accuracy of the translations they read, nor did many consider the contexts in which Hume was writing: rather, they were intent on using what they read for their own purposes.

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Author:   Professor Peter Jones (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Edition:   NIPPOD ed
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781441102423


ISBN 10:   1441102426
Pages:   434
Publication Date:   03 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface - Elinor Shaffer; Acknowledgements List of Contributors Timeline Introduction - Peter Jones 1. Hume's Reception in Ireland - M.A. Stewart 2. The Early British Reception of Hume's Writings on Religion - M.A. Stewart 3. Hume's Reception in France - Michel Malherbe 4. The Reception of Hume in Germany - Manfred Kuehn 5. David Hume and Sir James Steuart - Andrew S. Skinner 6. Italian Responses to David Hume - Paola Zanardi 7. Translations of Hume's Works in Italy - Emilio Mazza 8. Hume in Russia; Tatiana V. Artemieva and Mikhail I. Mikeshin 9. The Reception of David Hume's Philosophy in Sweden - Henrik Lagerlund 10. David Hume and Polish Philosophical and Social Thought - Bozena Kusnierz; 11. 'Ignoramus': David Hume's Ideas in the Hungarian Enlightenment - Pal Acs; 12. The Reception of David Hume in Czech Thought - Josef Moural; 13. The Reception of David Hume in Romania - Andreea Deciu Ritivoi; 14. Canonization and Critique: Hume's Reputation as a Historian - Mark Salber Phillips and Dale R. Smith; 15. The Reception of Hume in Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy - James A. Harris;16. The Scientific Reception of Hume's Theory of Causation: Establishing the Positivist Interpretation in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland - John P. Wright; Bibliography; Index

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The Reception of David Hume in Europe provides invaluable clues as to how the reception of an author's work impacts its status as a classic. And, perhaps more importantly, it presses us to revise our conception of what is now, particularly in the Anglo-American world, taken to be the quintessential philosophical classic, namely Hume's Treatise of Human Nature...The Reception can be read as telling the history of the different lives of Hume's works - the story of the 'making of' what is now, for us, a philosophical classic...And this story needs to be told. -Alix Cohen, New Essays on David Hume -- Alix Cohen Reviewed in Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie (Journal of the Institute of Philosophy, of the Catholic University of Leuven), 2007 issue.


The Reception of David Hume in Europe provides invaluable clues as to how the reception of an author's work impacts its status as a classic. And, perhaps more importantly, it presses us to revise our conception of what is now, particularly in the Anglo-American world, taken to be the quintessential philosophical classic, namely Hume's Treatise of Human Nature...The Reception can be read as telling the history of the different lives of Hume's works - the story of the 'making of' what is now, for us, a philosophical classic... And this story needs to be told. -- Alix Cohen, New Essays on David Hume Reviewed in Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie (Journal of the Institute of Philosophy, of the Catholic University of Leuven), 2007 issue.


The Reception of David Hume in Europe provides invaluable clues as to how the reception of an author's work impacts its status as a classic. And, perhaps more importantly, it presses us to revise our conception of what is now, particularly in the Anglo-American world, taken to be the quintessential philosophical classic, namely Hume's Treatise of Human Nature...The Reception can be read as telling the history of the different lives of Hume's works - the story of the 'making of' what is now, for us, a philosophical classic... And this story needs to be told. -- Alix Cohen, New Essays on David Hume Reviewed in Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie (Journal of the Institute of Philosophy, of the Catholic University of Leuven), 2007 issue.


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Peter Jones is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

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