Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment

by Thomas W. Merrill

Book Overview

'Methinks I am like a man, who having narrowly escap'd shipwreck', David Hume writes in A Treatise of Human Nature, 'has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe'. With these words, Hume begins a memorable depiction of the crisis of philosophy and his turn to moral and political philosophy as the path forward. In this groundbreaking work, Thomas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107519659
• ISBN13: 9781107519657
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"