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Zusatztext This is a wide-ranging collection. What it lacks in thematic unity is made up for by its admirable breadth in method and style. Continental and analytic philosophy, literary criticism, intellectual history, philosophically-orientated history of philosophy, and biography all make an appearance here. The editors are to be commended for bringing together Hume scholarship from across the disciplines. Klappentext Impressions of Hume is an interdisciplinary volume of new essays from leading scholars on the work of David Hume. To some his writings are vehicles for intuitions, problems, and arguments which are at the centre of contemporary philosophical reflection; others locate Hume's views against the background of concerns and debates of his own time. Hume's texts may be read as highly sophisticated literary-cum-philosophical creations, or as moments in the construction of modernity; these are 'open' texts which present their reader with a bounty of different materials and inspirations. Frasca-Spada and Kail believe that the borders between these approaches are far from neat, and that as much cross-fertilization as possible is to be promoted. Impressions of Hume amply demonstrates the rewards of such an approach. Zusammenfassung Impressions of Hume presents new essays from leading scholars in different philosophical, historiographical, and literary traditions to which Hume made defining contributions. Hume has made a variety of impressions on these different areas; his writings, philosophical and otherwise, may indeed be read in a number of different ways. For example, they can be taken as transparent vehicles for philosophical intuitions, problems, and arguments that are still at the centre of philosophical reflection today. On the other hand, there are readings which are interested in locating Hume's views against the background of concerns, debates and discussions of Hume's own time. And this is not all. Hume's texts may be read as highly sophisticated literary-cum-philosophical creations: in such cases, the reader's attention tends to be directed at issues of genre and persuasive strategies rather than on argument. Or they may be regarded as moments in the construction of the ideology of modernity, and as contributions to the legitimation of a given social order. As the true classics that they are, Hume's works are typical 'open texts', which present their readers of all provenances with a bounty of materials and inspirations. It is the editors' conviction that the borders between these approaches are far from neat; and that as much cross-fertilization as possible is to be promoted. Impressions of Hume amply demonstrates the rewards of such an approach. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: M. A. Stewart: Hume's intellectual development 2: P. Lipton: Waiting for Hume 3: R. M. Sainsbury: Meeting the hare in her doubles: causal belief and general belief 4: M. Bell: Transcendental Empiricism? Deleuze's reading of Hume 5: S. James: Sympathy and comparison: two principles of human nature 6: P. J. E. Kail: Hume's ethical conclusion 7: J. A. Harris: Hume's use of the rhetoric of Calvinism 8: M. Frasca-Spada: Quixotic confusions and Hume's imagination 9: R. W. Serjeantson: Hume's general rules and the 'chief business of philosophers' 10: E. Mazza: Hume's 'meek' philosophy among the Milanese 11: S. Manning: Hume's fragments of union and the fiction of the Scottish Enlightenment 12: S. M. S. Pearsall: Hume on marriage Bibliography ...
