Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations and Conventions
- Series Editor's Introduction
- 1 Introduction
- 2 ‘The Empire of the Imagination’: The Association of Ideas in Hume's Social Philosophy
- 3 ‘What is Established’?: Hume's Social Philosophy of Opinion
- 4 ‘Refinement’ and ‘Vicious Luxury’: Hume's Nuanced Defence of Luxury
- 5 Taming ‘the Tyranny of Priests’: Hume's Advocacy of Religious Establishments
- 6 How ‘To Refine the Democracy’: Hume's Perfect Commonwealth as a Development of his Political Science
- 7 Human Society ‘in Perpetual Flux’: Hume's Pendulum Theory of Civilisation
- 8 ‘The Prince of Sceptics’ and ‘The Prince of Historians’: Hume's Influence and Image in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations and Conventions
- Series Editor's Introduction
- 1 Introduction
- 2 ‘The Empire of the Imagination’: The Association of Ideas in Hume's Social Philosophy
- 3 ‘What is Established’?: Hume's Social Philosophy of Opinion
- 4 ‘Refinement’ and ‘Vicious Luxury’: Hume's Nuanced Defence of Luxury
- 5 Taming ‘the Tyranny of Priests’: Hume's Advocacy of Religious Establishments
- 6 How ‘To Refine the Democracy’: Hume's Perfect Commonwealth as a Development of his Political Science
- 7 Human Society ‘in Perpetual Flux’: Hume's Pendulum Theory of Civilisation
- 8 ‘The Prince of Sceptics’ and ‘The Prince of Historians’: Hume's Influence and Image in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Hume's Sceptical Enlightenment , pp. vPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2015