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David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America (Paperback)
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David Hume and Eighteenth-Century America (Paperback)
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
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A thorough examination of the influence of David Hume's work early
American political thought. This book explores the reception of
David Hume's political thought in eighteenth-century America. It
presents a challenge to standard interpretations that assume Hume's
thought had little influence in early America. Eighteenth-century
Americans are often supposed to have ignored Hume's philosophical
writings and to have rejected entirely Hume's "Tory" History of
England. James Madison, if he used Hume's ideas in Federalist No.
10, it is commonly argued, thought best to do so silently -- open
allegiance to Hume was a liability. Despite renewed debate about
the impact of Hume's political ideas in America, existing
scholarship is often narrow and highly speculative. WereHume's
works available in eighteenth-century America? If so, which works?
Where? When? Who read Hume? To what avail? To answer questions of
that sort, this books draws upon a wide assortment of evidence.
Early American bookcatalogues, periodical publications, and the
writings of lesser-light thinkers are used to describe Hume's
impact on the social history of ideas, an essential context for
understanding Hume's influence on many of the classic texts of
early American political thought. Hume's Essays and Treatises on
Several Subjects, was readily available, earlier, and more widely,
than scholars have supposed. The History of England was read most
frequently ofall, however, and often in distinctive ways. Hume's
History, which presented the British constitution as a patch-work
product of chance historical developments, informed the origins of
the American Revolution and Hume's subsequent reception through the
late eighteenth century. The 326 subscribers to the first American
edition of Hume's History [published in Philadelphia in 1795/96]
are more representative of the History's friendly reception in
enlightened America than are its few critics. Thomas Jefferson's
latter-day rejection of Hume's political thought foreshadowed
Hume's falling reputation in nineteenth-century America. MARK G.
SPENCER is Associate Professor of History at Brock University where
he holds a Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence. His books
include Hume's Reception in Early America [2002], Utilitarians and
Their Critics in America, 1789-1914 [2005], andUlster Presbyterians
in the Atlantic World [2006].
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