James A. Harris (Scotland University of St Andrews)

Hume

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book will be read by all those interested in the life and writing of David Hume. This includes students (undergraduate and postgraduate) and academics working in a wide variety of fields, including philosophy, politics, history, English/Scottish literature, the history of economics, and divinity/theology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 636
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 956g
• ISBN-13: 9781108733687
• ISBN-10: 1108733689
• Artikelnr.: 53936130

Autorenporträt

James A. Harris is Professor in the History of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of Of Liberty and Necessity: The Free Will Debate in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy (2005) and of articles on Hume, Hutcheson, Reid, Beattie, Priestley, and various themes in eighteenth-century British philosophy. He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (2013) and the coeditor with Aaron Garrett of Scottish Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century: Volume One (2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Pursuits of philosophy and general learning
2. Anatomist of human nature
3. Essayist
4. Achievement of independence
5. Two years at Ninewells
6. The start of a history of Great Britain
7. The completion of a history of Great Britain
8. Paris, London, Edinburgh
Afterword: death and character.