Impressions of Hume

Impressions of Hume collects brand-new essays from leading scholars in different philosophical historiographical and literary traditions within which Hume is a canonical figure. To some his writings are vehicles for intuitions problems and arguments which are at the center of contemporary philosophical reflection; others locate Hume''s views against the background of concerns and debates of his own time. Hume''s texts may be read as highly sophisticated literary-cum-philosophical creations or as moments in the construction of the ideology of modernity; these are open texts which present their reader with a bounty of different materials and inspirations.