The Reception of David Hume In Europe

by Peter Jones, Elinor Shaffer

Overview

The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European 'fortunes'. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which David Hume has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of Europe. This is the first collection of essays to consider how and where Hume's works were initially understood throughout Europe. They reflect on how early European responses to Hume relied on available French translations, and concentrated on his Political Discourses and his History, and how later German translations enabled professional philosophers to discuss his more abstract ideas. Also explored is the idea that continental readers were not able to judge the accuracy of the translations they read, nor did many consider the contexts in which Hume was writing: rather, they were intent on using what they read for their own purposes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826463494
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	02/04/2006
Series:	The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Pages:	434
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Elinor Shaffer, FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, has published on Romantic and Victorian literature, is author of 'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School of Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, edited the annual jourbanal Comparative Criticism, and most recently has contributed to Samuel Butler: Victorian Against the Grain.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface - Elinor Shaffer; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Timeline; Introduction - Peter Jones; 1. Hume's Reception in Ireland - M.A. Stewart; 2. The Early British Reception of Hume's Writings on Religion - M.A. Stewart; 3. Hume's Reception in France - Michel Malherbe; 4. The Reception of Hume in Germany - Manfred Kuehn; 5. David Hume and Sir James Steuart - Andrew S. Skinner; 6. Italian Responses to David Hume - Paola Zanardi; 7. Translations of Hume's Works in Italy - Emilio Mazza; 8. Hume in Russia; Tatiana V. Artemieva and Mikhail I. Mikeshin; 9. The Reception of David Hume's Philosophy in Sweden - Henrik Lagerlund; 10. David Hume and Polish Philosophical and Social Thought - Bozena Kusnierz; 11. 'Ignoramus': David Hume's Ideas in the Hungarian Enlightenment - Pál ács; 12. The Reception of David Hume in Czech Thought - Josef Moural; 13. The Reception of David Hume in Romania - Andreea Deciu Ritivoi; 14. Canonization and Critique: Hume's Reputation as a Historian - Mark Salber Phillips and Dale R. Smith; 15. The Reception of Hume in Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy - James A. Harris;16. The Scientific Reception of Hume's Theory of Causation: Establishing the Positivist Interpretation in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland - John P. Wright; Bibliography; Index