Reception of David Hume In Europe

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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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 Discourses and his History, and how later German translations enabled professional philosophers to discuss his more abstract ideas. Also explored is the idea that continental readers were not able to judge the accuracy of the translations they read, nor did many consider the contexts in which Hume was writing: rather, they were intent on using what they read for their own purposes.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-01-03
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt640 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieReception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Antal sidor434
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781441102423

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Series Editor's Preface - Elinor Shaffer; AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsTimelineIntroduction - Peter Jones1. Hume's Reception in Ireland - M.A. Stewart2. The Early British Reception of Hume's Writings on Religion - M.A. Stewart3. Hume's Reception in France - Michel Malherbe4. The Reception of Hume in Germany - Manfred Kuehn5. David Hume and Sir James Steuart - Andrew S. Skinner6. Italian Responses to David Hume - Paola Zanardi7. Translations of Hume's Works in Italy - Emilio Mazza8. Hume in Russia; Tatiana V. Artemieva and Mikhail I. Mikeshin9. The Reception of David Hume's Philosophy in Sweden - Henrik Lagerlund10. David Hume and Polish Philosophical and Social Thought - Bozena Kusnierz; 11. 'Ignoramus': David Hume's Ideas in the Hungarian Enlightenment - Pál Ács; 12. The Reception of David Hume in Czech Thought - Josef Moural; 13. The Reception of David Hume in Romania - Andreea Deciu Ritivoi; 14. Canonization and Critique: Hume's Reputation as a Historian - Mark Salber Phillips and Dale R. Smith; 15. The Reception of Hume in Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy - James A. Harris;16. The Scientific Reception of Hume's Theory of Causation: Establishing the Positivist Interpretation in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland - John P. Wright; Bibliography; Index

The Reception of David Hume in Europe provides invaluable clues as to how the reception of an author's work impacts its status as a classic. And, perhaps more importantly, it presses us to revise our conception of what is now, particularly in the Anglo-American world, taken to be the quintessential philosophical classic, namely Hume's Treatise of Human Nature...The Reception can be read as telling the history of the different lives of Hume's works - the story of the 'making of' what is now, for us, a philosophical classic... And this story needs to be told.