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This book examines the relationship between art and tourism through
the study of the material culture of tourism: tourist art and
souvenirs. It thoroughly examines how to categorise the material
culture of tourism within the discourses of contemporary art and
cultural anthropology, and demonstrates that tourist art is a
unique expression of place and genuine artistic style. The first
investigation to consider the activity of souvenirs from both
indigenous and settler tourist sites, it brings a unique addition
to the existing, dated, research in the area. Working initially
from Graburn's definition of tourist art, as the art of one culture
made specifically for the consumption of another, Tourism Art and
Souvenirs sheds light on important aspects of the souvenir that
have not been widely discussed. The most recent research is used to
consider how the souvenir is designed and consumed, consumer
expectations and influence on the character of the souvenir, how
the souvenir maker is consumed by the tradition of heritage and how
products become successful as souvenirs. The title also
investigates the language involved in the representation of place
and the recording of experience through the souvenir, developing a
method that expresses the descriptive data of individual souvenir
artefacts graphically so the patterns of language may be analysed.
Enhancing the understanding of material culture in tourism and
therefore adding to future tourism development this volume will be
of interest to upper level students, researchers and academics in
tourism, culture, heritage and sustainability.
With an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward
Morris. David Hume (1711-1776) was the most important philosopher
ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume
contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature
(1739-1740), published while Hume was still in his twenties,
consists of three books on the understanding, the passions, and
morals. It applies the experimental method of reasoning to human
nature in a revolution that was intended to make Hume the Newton of
the moral sciences. Disappointed with the Treatise's failure to
bring about such a revolution, Hume later recast Book I as An
Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1751), and Book III as An
Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, which he regarded as
'incomparably the best' of all his works. Both Enquiries went
through several editions in his lifetime. Hume's works,
controversial in his day, remain deeply and widely influential in
ours, especially for his contributions to our understanding of the
nature of morality, political and economic theory, philosophy of
religion, and philosophical naturalism. This volume also includes
Hume's anonymous Abstract of Books I and II of the Treatise, and
the short autobiographical essay, 'My Own Life', which he wrote
just before his death.
Originally published in 1955, Eugene Rotwein's collection of David
Hume's economic writings has become the criterion by which to
measure studies of Hume's thinking on economics. Rotwein, in his
extended introduction, masterfully examines the connection between
Hume's various writings economic, political, philosophical, and
historical. This edition is graced with a new introduction by
Margaret Schabas. Hume belonged to the same generation as that of
his friend and fellow countryman Adam Smith. Hume's writings on
economics, however, unlike those of Smith's, comprise a relatively
small portion of his published works. They consist of nine of
twelve essays in his Political Discourses, first published in 1752,
and a rather small number of passages in Hume's private letters to
such correspondents as Smith, Montesquieu, Turgot, and Oswald. They
were all brought together here for the first time in a single
volume. These writings sought to clarify the various problems of
Hume's society and suggest remedies for their solution. They are
still relevant for the modern reader. Included are "Of Commerce,"
"Of Refinement in the Arts," "Of Money," "Of Interest," "Of the
Balance of Trade," "Of the Jealousy of Trade," "Of Taxes," "Of
Public Credit," and "Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations," as
well as the relevant extracts from Hume's letters. Long
unavailable, this edition will be welcomed by students of
economics, philosophy, and the Scottish Enlightenment.
Hume's Enquiry: Expanded and Explained includes the entire
classical text of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly
into the text in regular font, and analytic summaries of each
section. The commentary is like a professor on hand to guide the
reader through every line of the daunting prose and every move in
the intricate argumentation. The unique design helps students learn
how to read and engage with one of modern philosophy's most
important and exciting classics. Key Features: Includes the entire
original text. Provides helpful summaries of each paragraph. Offers
commentary on every line of text. Removes the gap between
commentary and text.
Originally published in 1955, Eugene Rotwein's collection of
David Hume's economic writings has become the criterion by which to
measure studies of Hume's thinking on economics. Rotwein, in his
extended introduction, masterfully examines the connection between
Hume's various writings--economic, political, philosophical, and
historical. This edition is graced with a new introduction by
Margaret Schabas.
Hume belonged to the same generation as that of his friend and
fellow countryman Adam Smith. Hume's writings on economics,
however, unlike those of Smith's, comprise a relatively small
portion of his published works. They consist of nine of twelve
essays in his Political Discourses, first published in 1752, and a
rather small number of passages in Hume's private letters to such
correspondents as Smith, Montesquieu, Turgot, and Oswald. They were
all brought together here for the first time in a single
volume.
These writings sought to clarify the various problems of Hume's
society and suggest remedies for their solution. They are still
relevant for the modern reader. Included are "Of Commerce," "Of
Refinement in the Arts," "Of Money," "Of Interest," "Of the Balance
of Trade," "Of the Jealousy of Trade," "Of Taxes," "Of Public
Credit," and "Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations," as well as
the relevant extracts from Hume's letters. Long unavailable, this
edition will be welcomed by students of economics, philosophy, and
the Scottish Enlightenment.
Hume's Enquiry: Expanded and Explained includes the entire
classical text of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human
Understanding in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly
into the text in regular font, and analytic summaries of each
section. The commentary is like a professor on hand to guide the
reader through every line of the daunting prose and every move in
the intricate argumentation. The unique design helps students learn
how to read and engage with one of modern philosophy's most
important and exciting classics. Key Features: Includes the entire
original text. Provides helpful summaries of each paragraph. Offers
commentary on every line of text. Removes the gap between
commentary and text.
This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in "Essays,
Moral, and Literary, " that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous
"Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects." It also includes ten
essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various
reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for
the religious climate of his time.This revised edition reflects
changes based on further comparisons with eighteenth-century texts
and an extensive reworking of the index.Eugene F. Miller was
Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia from
1967 until his retirement in 2003.
This book examines the relationship between art and tourism through
the study of the material culture of tourism: tourist art and
souvenirs. It thoroughly examines how to categorise the material
culture of tourism within the discourses of contemporary art and
cultural anthropology, and demonstrates that tourist art is a
unique expression of place and genuine artistic style. The first
investigation to consider the activity of souvenirs from both
indigenous and settler tourist sites, it brings a unique addition
to the existing, dated, research in the area. Working initially
from Graburn's definition of tourist art, as the art of one culture
made specifically for the consumption of another, Tourism Art and
Souvenirs sheds light on important aspects of the souvenir that
have not been widely discussed. The most recent research is used to
consider how the souvenir is designed and consumed, consumer
expectations and influence on the character of the souvenir, how
the souvenir maker is consumed by the tradition of heritage and how
products become successful as souvenirs. The title also
investigates the language involved in the representation of place
and the recording of experience through the souvenir, developing a
method that expresses the descriptive data of individual souvenir
artefacts graphically so the patterns of language may be analysed.
Enhancing the understanding of material culture in tourism and
therefore adding to future tourism development this volume will be
of interest to upper level students, researchers and academics in
tourism, culture, heritage and sustainability.
The first thematically arranged collection of Hume's political
writings, this new work brings together substantive selections from
A Treatise on Human Nature , An Enquiry Concerning the Principles
of Morals , and Essays: Moral, Political and Literary , with an
interpretive introduction placing Hume in the context of
contemporary debates between liberalism and its critics and between
contextual and universal approaches.
Hume's brilliant and dispassionate essay Of Miracles has been added
in this expanded edition of his Dialogues Concerning Natural
Religion , which also includes Of the Immortality of the Soul,Of
Suicide, and Richard Popkin's illuminating Introduction.
Hume's comprehensive effort to form an observationally grounded
study of human nature employs John Locke's empiric principles to
construct a theory of knowledge from which to evaluate metaphysical
ideas. A key to modern studies of 18th-century Western philosophy,
the "Treatise" considers numerous classic philosophical issues,
including causation, existence, freedom and necessity, and
morality.
Hume's Natural History of Religion may, with his Dialogues
Concerning Natural Religion be held to mark the beginning of the
Philosophy of Religion. Not so clearly a text illustrating modern
technology-indeed in its own day it was regarded as skeptical and
subversive-the Natural History is remarkably illustrative of the
development of religious thought and is a brilliant philosophical
contribution to the interpretation of religion. The editor of this
reprint discusses Hume's purpose in writing the Natural History and
assesses its influence at the present day.
A landmark of Enlightenment thought, Hume's An Enquiry Concerning
Human Understanding is accompanied here by two shorter works that
shed light on it: A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in
Edinburgh , Hume's response to those accusing him of atheism, of
advocating extreme skepticism, and of undermining the foundations
of morality; and his Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature , which
anticipates discussions developed in the Enquiry . In his concise
Introduction, Eric Steinberg explores the conditions that led Hume
to write the Enquiry and the work's important relationship to Book
I of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature .
This impressive book is richly illustrated with 91 gorgeous macro
photographs - of flowers, and also some of their pollinators - by
John Rodrigues, an artist who has taken that time to truly see. We
invite you to sit back, maybe with a cup of hot Chamomile tea, and
indulge in these images - taking the time to truly see these
flowers, and to appreciate their inherent majesty. John Rodrigues
takes an old lens and new camera and gives us a new look at an old
photographic subject.
'Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but
sophistry and illusion.' Thus ends David Hume's Enquiry concerning
Human Understanding, the definitive statement of the greatest
philosopher in the English language. His arguments in support of
reasoning from experience, and against the 'sophistry and illusion'
of religiously inspired philosophical fantasies, caused controversy
in the eighteenth century and are strikingly relevant today, when
faith and science continue to clash. The Enquiry considers the
origin and processes of human thought, reaching the stark
conclusion that we can have no ultimate understanding of the
physical world, or indeed our own minds. In either sphere we must
depend on instinctive learning from experience, recognizing our
animal nature and the limits of reason. Hume's calm and open-minded
scepticism thus aims to provide a new basis for science, liberating
us from the 'superstition' of false metaphysics and religion. His
Enquiry remains one of the best introductions to the study of
philosophy, and this edition places it in its historical and
philosophical context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
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wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
A genuine understanding of Hume's extraordinarily rich, important,
and influential moral philosophy requires familiarity with all of
his writings on vice and virtue, the passions, the will, and even
judgments of beauty--and that means familiarity not only with large
portions of A Treatise of Human Nature, but also with An Enquiry
Concerning the Principles of Morals and many of his essays as well.
This volume is the one truly comprehensive collection of Hume's
work on all of these topics. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, a leading moral
philosopher and Hume scholar, has done a meticulous job of editing
the texts and has provided an extensive Introduction that is at
once accessible, accurate, and philosophically engaging, revealing
the deep structure of Hume's moral philosophy. --Don Garrett, New
York University
A genuine understanding of Hume's extraordinarily rich, important,
and influential moral philosophy requires familiarity with all of
his writings on vice and virtue, the passions, the will, and even
judgments of beauty--and that means familiarity not only with large
portions of A Treatise of Human Nature, but also with An Enquiry
Concerning the Principles of Morals and many of his essays as well.
This volume is the one truly comprehensive collection of Hume's
work on all of these topics. Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, a leading moral
philosopher and Hume scholar, has done a meticulous job of editing
the texts and has provided an extensive Introduction that is at
once accessible, accurate, and philosophically engaging, revealing
the deep structure of Hume's moral philosophy. --Don Garrett, New
York University
A splendid edition. Schneewind's illuminating introduction
succinctly situates the Enquiry in its historical context,
clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and
to earlier moral philosophers, and providing a persuasive account
of Hume's ethical naturalism. --Martha C. Nussbaum, Brown
University
Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important
figures in the age of Scottish enlightenment. "A Treatise of Human
Nature" broke new ground by attempting to base philosophy on human
nature, making it one of the most important texts in Western
Philosophy. Human passions and the ability to distinguish between
virtue and vice are elucidated in the text. In "An Enquiry
Concerning Human Understanding" Hume discusses the weaknesses that
humans have in their abilities to understand the world around them.
This book is often a textbook for Philosophy Courses. "An Enquiry
Concerning the Principles of Morals" is an elegant enquiry into
ethical theory, explained clearly and comprehensively. In Hume's
"Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" he explores the very idea
of God, the possibility of his existence, and his alleged nature as
a good, perfect, omniscient, omnipotent Supreme Being.
Hume's Treatise was published before he was thirty (after its publication in 1739-40 he wrote that it 'fell dead-born from the press'). It is nothing less than an attempt to extend the Copernican Revolution to philosophy - to put to the test of experience a complete system of the moral sciences which had hitherto gone unquestioned. But Hume was no rationalist: from his viewpoint of informed scepticism he could see man not as a religious creation, nor as a machine, but as a creature dominated by sentiment, passion and appetite. With justice Sir Isaiah Berlin has written of him: 'No man has influenced the history of philosophy to a deeper or more disturbing degree.'
A superb classroom edition with a detailed introduction and
extensive notes by Anthony Flew, author of Hume's Philosophy of
Belief. This also includes Hume's autobiography, My Own Life;
Hume's An abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature; the key passage
Why a Cause is Always Necessary from Hume's Treatise; three letters
by Hume, and the famous letter on Hume's death by Adam Smith.
This is the only complete and up-to-date collection of Hume's
writings on religion, in an accessible classroom edition. Includes
The Natural History of Religion, Dialogues Concerning Natural
Religion, Of the Immortality of the Soul, Of Suicide, Of
Superstition and Enthusiasm, A Note on the Profession of Priest,
and two revealing letters. "Overall, this book performs two special
services. First, it makes readily available the full range of
Hume's writings on religion. Second, its thorough notes explain
references students are likely to find obscure and points they are
likely to find puzzling." Ethics
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