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Complete Essays: Volume 2 - Hardcover

Hume, David

 
9780241730867: Complete Essays: Volume 2
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0241730864 ISBN 13: 9780241730867
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

A superb new edition of the essays of one of the greatest prose writers in English

David Hume reshaped, redirected, and re-energised the English essay. His sceptical, rational, self-questioning persona created what amounted to a new intellectual arena, in which it was possible to think afresh about the world and the self. When he famously wrote that ‘the life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster’, something had changed.

David Womersley has spent a lifetime studying the literature of the eighteenth century. This definitive new two-volume edition of the essays follows Hume’s division of his essays into two parts, and allows the modern reader to enjoy this extraordinary writer in all his moods, from benign optimism to gloomy foreboding. The editorial apparatus supplies indispensable intellectual and bibliographical context for these rewarding, humane, and yet also subtly provocative writings.

Volume 1 is published simultaneously.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Hume (Author)
David Hume (1711-76) was born in Edinburgh and devoted himself to philosophy and literature from an early age. In 1739-40, he published his now highly regarded work, A Treatise of Human Nature. He worked as a tutor, judge advocate, librarian, diplomat and senior civil servant, as well as writing further works such as Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and a six-volume History of England.

David Womersley (External Editor)
David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his interests are Jonathan Swift (he was the general editor of the CUP edition of Swift), Daniel Defoe and Edward Gibbon, whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he edited for Penguin Classics.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2026
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241730864
ISBN 13 
9780241730867
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
736
Herausgeber
Womersley David
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