The Great Infidel: A Life of David Hume 1st Thus Edition by Roderick Graham (2006) Paperback

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ISBN-10:

1841585203

ISBN-13:

9781841585208

Author(s): Graham, Roderick
Edition: 1st THUS
Released: Jul 12, 2006
Publisher: Birlinn
Format: Paperback, 432 pages

Description:

Library shelves groan under the weight of academic critiques of David Hume's philosophy and in-depth studies of his political economy. This book, however, is not one of those scholastic tomes. Rather, this is the story of the life of the famous philosopher, one of Scotland's greatest men.Through Hume's life, we are shown the Enlightenment from its roots, through its sometimes difficult growth to its flowering in eighteenth-century Edinburgh. Using original sources, some for the first time, we witness Hume's disappointment with the reception of his Treatise of Human Nature - it fell deadborn from the press' - although it is now seen as a pivotal work in European thinking, and follow his adventures during a farcical invasion of France. His Essays and History at last brought him the fame he had sought, but also caused the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland to attempt to excommunicate him. The accusation that Hume was an atheist is disproved while, more light-heartedly, his t

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