Hume's Essays by Max Skjönsberg

Hume's Essays by Max Skjönsberg

David Hume's Essays, which were written and published at various junctures between 1741 and his death in 1776, offer his most accessible and often most profound statements on a range of subjects including politics, philosophy, aesthetics, and political economy. In Hume's lifetime, the readable and wide-ranging Essays acquired considerable fame throughout Europe and North America, influencing the writings of such diverse figures as James Madison and William Paley, yet they have not been given the same scholarly attention as his more famous philosophical works. This Critical Guide provides a series of in-depth studies of the Essays, as well as an account of the state of scholarship on the work. Thirteen chapters examine the Essays from historical, political and philosophical perspectives, with the aim of restoring the work to its rightful place among Hume's works and in intellectual history more broadly.

‘This work is exceptionally comprehensive, given the breadth of Hume's Essays, and offers, through consistently insightful analyses, a deeper understanding of the context of their reception, their content, their form, and their connections to Hume's other worksIt is an invaluable tool for understanding the developments, shifts, and evolutions evident in the Scottish philosopher's thought on various issues, compared to his earlier works. It is intended for readers familiar with Hume's thought, but also more broadly for those interested in the history of the dissemination of Scottish Enlightenment works in the 18th century, and constitutes a precious contribution to Hume studies.’ Iris Douzant, Archives de philosophie

Max Skjönsberg is Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. He is the author of The Persistence of Party: Ideas of Harmonious Discord in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge, 2021), and the editor of Catharine Macaulay's Political Writings (Cambridge, 2023). Felix Waldmann is a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is the editor of Further Letters of David Hume (2014) and he is editing the Clarendon Edition of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and Occasional Writings.

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ISBN 13	9781009048361
Title	Hume's Essays
Author	Max Skjönsberg
Series	Cambridge Critical Guides
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2026-09-30
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