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Hume's Philosophical Politics
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Hume's Philosophical Politics
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Duncan Forbes
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:356 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521319973
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| Classifications | Dewey:320.01 |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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| Illustrations |
Worked examples or Exercises
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
24 January 1985 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This is a study of Hume's political thought based on a survey of all his writings in their original and revised versions, with very full reference to the works of predecessors and contemporaries, including journalists, pamphleteers and historians. Hume's political thinking is presented in its historical context as a modem, 'philosophical', empirically based system of politics for a new post-revolutionary age, and a political education for parochial, backward-looking party men.
Reviews'Mr Forbes succeeds admirably as Hume's philosophical politics is scrupulously analysed against the background of events and thought of his predecessors and contemporaries ... Specialists in eighteenth-century English history and philosophy should welcome this addition to Hume scholarship and perhaps it may be regarded as a standard work ...'. History
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