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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786240803321

Titolo

The reception of David Hume in Europe / / edited by Peter Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Bloomsbury, , 2013

©2005

ISBN

1-62356-761-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (972 p.)

Collana

Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe

Disciplina

192

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Timeline: European Reception of David Hume; Introduction; 1 Hume's Reception in Ireland; 2 The Early British Reception of Hume's Writings on Religion; 3 Hume's Reception in France; 4 The Reception of Hume in Germany; 5 David Hume and Sir James Steuart; 6 Italian Responses to David Hume; 7 Translations of Hume's Works in Italy; 8 Hume in Russia; 9 The Reception of David Hume's Philosophy in Sweden; 10 David Hume and Polish Philosophical and Social Thought

11 'Ignoramus': David Hume's Ideas in the Hungarian Enlightenment12 The Reception of David Hume in Czech Thought; 13 The Reception of David Hume in Romania; 14 Canonization and Critique: Hume's Reputation as a Historian; 15 The Reception of Hume in Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy; 16 The Scientific Reception of Hume's Theory of Causation: Establishing the Positivist Interpretation in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland; Bibliography; Index; Footnotes; Introductionfn; Ch02fn; Ch03fn; Ch04fn; Ch05fn; Ch06fn; Ch07fn; Ch08fn; Ch09fn; Ch10fn; Ch11fn; Ch12fn; Ch13fn; Ch14fn; Ch15fn; Ch16fn

Sommario/riassunto

The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European 'fortunes'. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which David Hume has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of Europe. This



is the first collection of essays to consider how and where Hume's works were initially understood throughout Europe. They reflect on how early European responses to Hume relied on available French translations, and concentrated on his Political