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Early Responses to Hume's Life and Reputation - Volumes 9 and 10 (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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Early Responses to Hume's Life and Reputation - Volumes 9 and 10 (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
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During the latter half of his life, David Hume (1711-1776) achieved
international celebrity status as a great philosopher and
historian. The sceptical and anti-religious bent of his works
generated hundreds of critical responses, many of which were
scholarly commentaries. Other writers, though, focused less on
Hume's specific publications and more on his reputation as a famous
public figure. Wittingly or unwittingly, Hume was involved in many
controversies: the attempts to excommunicate him from the Church of
Scotland; his paradoxically close association with several Scottish
clergymen; his quarrel with Jean Jacques Rousseau; his approach to
his own death. Hume's enemies attacked his public character while
his allies defended it. Friends and foes alike recorded anecdotes
about him which appeared after his death in scattered periodicals
and books. Hume's biographers have drawn liberally on this
material, but in most cases the original sources are only
summarized or briefly quoted. This set presents dozens of these
biographically-related discussions of Hume in their most complete
form, reset, annotated and introduced by James Fieser. The editor
also provides the most detailed bibliographies yet compiled of
Hume's writings and the early responses to them. These two volumes
form the final part of the major "Early Responses to Hume" series,
and they conclude with an index to the complete ten-volume
collection. Like earlier sets in the series, these books should be
welcomed by historians and Hume scholars all over the world, and
research libraries should see them as important additions to
holdings on the Scottish Enlightenment.
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