Author : Ernest Campbell Mossner
Release : 2001
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 365/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis The Life of David Hume by : Ernest Campbell Mossner
Download or read book The Life of David Hume written by Ernest Campbell Mossner. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mossner's Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, this excellent life story is now reissued in paperback, in response to an overwhelming interest in Hume's brilliant ideas. Containing more than a simple biography, this exemplary work is also a study of intellectual reaction in the eighteenth century. In this new edition are a detailed bibliography, index, and textual supplements, making it the perfect text for scholars and advanced students of Hume, epistemology, and the history of philosophy. It is also ideal for historians and literary scholars working on the eighteenth century, and for anyone with an interest in philosophy.