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David Hume Platonic Philosopher, Continental Ancestor -- David Hume Platonic Philosopher, Continental Ancestor -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Deleuze's Hume . . . and Ours Madness, Retrieval -- Chapter I: Aspects of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding -- Chapter II: Aspects of An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals -- Chapter III: Hume's Philosophy of Art -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

A thorough examination of the role which David Hume's writings played upon the founders of the United States. This book explores the reception of David Hume's political thought in eighteenth-century America. It presents a challenge to standard interpretations that assume Hume's thought had little influence in early America. Eighteenth-century Americans are often supposed to have ignored Hume's philosophical writings and to have rejected entirely Hume's 'Tory' 'History of England'. James Madison, if he used Hume's ideas in 'Federalist' No. 10, it is commonly argued, thought best to do so silently-open allegiance to Hume was a liability. Despite renewed debate about the impact of Hume's political ideas in America, existing scholarship is often narrow and highly speculative. Were Hume's works available in eighteenth-century America? If so, which works? Where? When? Who read Hume? To what avail? To answer questions of that sort, this books draws upon a wide assortment of evidence. Early American book catalogues, periodical publications, and the writings of lesser-light thinkers are used to describe Hume's impact on the social history of ideas, an essential context for understanding Hume's influence on many of the classic texts of early American political thought. Hume's 'Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects', was readily available, earlier, and more widely, than scholars have supposed. The 'History of England' was read most frequently of all, however, and often in distinctive ways. Hume's 'History', which presented the British constitution as a patch-work product of chance historical developments, informed the origins of the American Revolution and Hume's subsequent reception through the late eighteenth century. The 326 subscribers to the first American edition of Hume's 'History' (published in Philadelphia in 1795/96) are more representative of the 'History's' friendly reception in enlightened America than are its few critics. Thomas Jefferson's latter-day rejection of Hume's political thought foreshadowed Hume's falling reputation in nineteenth-century America. MARK G. SPENCER is associate professor of history at Brock University where he holds a Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence. His books include Hume's Reception in Early America (2002), Utilitarians and Their Critics in America, 1789-1914 (2005), and Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World (2006)

COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Method of Citation -- Introduction: Hume as Historian (Mark G. Spencer) -- Chapter 1: Hume and Ecclesiastical History: Aims and Contexts (Roger L. Emerson) -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Artificial Lives, Providential History, and the Apparent Limits of Sympathetic Understanding (Jennifer A. Herdt) -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: "The Spirit of Liberty": Historical Causationand Political Rhetoric in the Age of Hume (Philip Hicks) -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: "The Book Seemed to Sink into Oblivion": Reading Hume's History in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (Mark Towsey) -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Reading Hume's History of England: Audience and Authority in Georgian England (David Allan) -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: Medieval Kingship and the Making of Modern Civility: Hume's Assessment of Governance in the History of England (Jeffrey M. Suderman) -- Notes to Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7: Hume and the End of History (F. L. van Holthoon) -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8: David Hume as a Philosopher of History (Claudia M. Schmidt) -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9: Fact and Fiction: Memory and Imagination in Hume's Approach to History and Literature (Timothy M. Costelloe) -- Notes to Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10: Hume's Historiographical Imagination (Douglas Long) -- Notes to Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11: The "Most Curious & -- Important of All Questions of Erudition": Hume's Assessment of the Populousness of Ancient Nations (M. A. Box and Michael Silverthorne) -- Notes to Chapter 11 -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- COVER Back.

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Hauptbeschreibung: Die Rezeption der Schriften des schottischen Philosophen und Historikers David Hume (1711-1776) hat sich lange Zeit fast ausschließlich auf eine Auseinandersetzung mit seinen erkenntnistheoretischen Überlegungen beschränkt. Diese Schwerpunktsetzung führte dazu, daß Humes Beobachtungen und Reflexionen zur Ethik, Ästhetik, Geschichte, Politik, Religion und Ökonomie weniger Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt wurde.Mit Blick auf das Gesamtwerk, einschließlich seiner Korrespondenz, rekonstruiert Mario Bührmann in dieser Studie sowohl das Anthropologieverständnis Humes als auch seine Auffassu