Hume An Intellectual Biography
Hume An Intellectual Biography by James A. Harris, published by Cambridge University Press on December 6, 2018, is a comprehensive exploration of the career of one of Britain’s most significant intellectual figures. This reprint edition spans 634 pages and is presented in English. The book contextualizes David Hume’s works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England, while examining the major influences that shaped his intellectual journey.
Readers will find a detailed account of Hume’s life events alongside an analysis of his philosophical intentions regarding human nature, politics, commerce, English history, and religion. The biography emphasizes Hume’s engagement with various literary genres and his relationships with contemporaries, aiming to illustrate his commitment to fostering open-minded and objective discussions on the pressing questions of his time. This edition serves as a valuable resource for those interested in philosophy and the historical development of ideas.
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This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of the entire career of one of Britain’s greatest men of letters. It sets in biographical and historical context all of Hume’s works, from A Treatise of Human Nature to The History of England, bringing to light the major influences on the course of Hume’s intellectual development, and paying careful attention to the differences between the wide variety of literary genres with which Hume experimented. The major events in Hume’s life are fully described, but the main focus is on Hume’s intentions as a philosophical analyst of human nature, politics, commerce, English history, and religion. Careful attention is paid to Hume’s intellectual relations with his contemporaries. The goal is to reveal Hume as a man intensely concerned with the realization of an ideal of open-minded, objective, rigorous, dispassionate dialogue about all the principal questions faced by his age.
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