The Reception of David Hume In Europe
Published on 3. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
434 pages
978-1-4411-0242-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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. -- Alix Cohen, New Essays on David Hume Reviewed in Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie (Journal of the Institute of Philosophy, of the Catholic University of Leuven), 2007 issue.More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
693 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-0242-3 (9781441102423)
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Person
Peter Jones is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.
Content
Series Editor's Preface - Elinor Shaffer; Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Timeline
Introduction - Peter Jones
1. Hume's Reception in Ireland - M.A. Stewart
2. The Early British Reception of Hume's Writings on Religion - M.A. Stewart
3. Hume's Reception in France - Michel Malherbe
4. The Reception of Hume in Germany - Manfred Kuehn
5. David Hume and Sir James Steuart - Andrew S. Skinner
6. Italian Responses to David Hume - Paola Zanardi
7. Translations of Hume's Works in Italy - Emilio Mazza
8. Hume in Russia; Tatiana V. Artemieva and Mikhail I. Mikeshin
9. The Reception of David Hume's Philosophy in Sweden - Henrik Lagerlund
10. David Hume and Polish Philosophical and Social Thought - Bozena Kusnierz; 11. 'Ignoramus': David Hume's Ideas in the Hungarian Enlightenment - Pal Acs; 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
List of Contributors
Timeline
Introduction - Peter Jones
1. Hume's Reception in Ireland - M.A. Stewart
2. The Early British Reception of Hume's Writings on Religion - M.A. Stewart
3. Hume's Reception in France - Michel Malherbe
4. The Reception of Hume in Germany - Manfred Kuehn
5. David Hume and Sir James Steuart - Andrew S. Skinner
6. Italian Responses to David Hume - Paola Zanardi
7. Translations of Hume's Works in Italy - Emilio Mazza
8. Hume in Russia; Tatiana V. Artemieva and Mikhail I. Mikeshin
9. The Reception of David Hume's Philosophy in Sweden - Henrik Lagerlund
10. David Hume and Polish Philosophical and Social Thought - Bozena Kusnierz; 11. 'Ignoramus': David Hume's Ideas in the Hungarian Enlightenment - Pal Acs; 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