
In this book--a new and revised edition of his 1989 classic--Nicholas Phillipson shows how Hume freed history from religion and politics, and became one of the most important philosophers ever to write in English.
A giant of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment,...


'A skilful and lucid study ... Hume's History has been unjustly neglected at the expense of his philosophy. Phillipson's book should help redress the balance' London Review of Books
'For pray what is the End of Man? Is he created for Happiness or for Virtue?...