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Title: Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium: Hume's Pathology of Philosophy by Donald W. Livingston ISBN: 0-226-48717-2 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
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Summary: Not your grandfather's David Hume
Comment: This is an extremely stimulating and interesting rereading of Hume's works. Departing from the standard reading of Hume as a proto-logical positivist, Livingston draws out the points of connection between Hume and the ancient conception of philosophy as a way of life, as well as other thinkers, such as Vico, Gadamer, Oakeshott, and Wittgenstein, who were skeptical of the Enlightenment's tendencies toward abstract "rationalism." In the process, Livingston shows how Hume would have responded to some of the postmodern age's more egregious folly. Admittedly, this book could have used some pruning, for Livingston makes many of the same points over and over again. Moreover, Livingston uses Humean claims to defend the South's secession during the Civil War, a questionable use of Hume to say the least. But the work as a whole repays rereading and contemplation, and it'll definitely encourage you to read "le bon David" with a fresh eye.
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Title: A Progress of Sentiments: Reflections on Hume's Treatise by Annette C. Baier ISBN: 0674713869 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $26.50 |
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Title: Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First Enquiry by P. J. R. Millican ISBN: 0198752105 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy by Don Garrett ISBN: 0195159594 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: A Commentary to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Norman Kemp Smith, Sebastian Gardner ISBN: 1403915040 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: 24 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Life of David Hume by Ernest Campbell Mossner ISBN: 0199243360 Publisher: Clarendon Pr Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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