Alan Bailey, Daniel Jayes O'Brien

Hume's 'Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' (eBook, PDF)

A Reader's Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

David Hume is widely considered to be the greatest British philosopher and his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is the most frequently studied of all his works - a key text in the study of empiricist thought. This is a hugely important and exciting, yet challenging, piece of philosophical writing.

In Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: A Reader's Guide, Allen Bailey and Dan O'Brien explain the philosophical background against which the book was written and the key themes inherent in the text. The book then guides the reader to a clear understanding of the text as a whole, before exploring the reception and influence of this classic philosophical work. This is the ideal companion to study of this most influential and challenging of texts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441107909
• Artikelnr.: 40776496

Autorenporträt

Alan Bailey is Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.