Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Liberty Classics Series
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time. This revised edition reflects changes based on further comparisons with eighteenth-century texts and an extensive reworking of the index. - Publisher.
Publisher: Liberty Classics Series
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
This edition contains the thirty-nine essays included in Essays, Moral, and Literary, that made up Volume I of the 1777 posthumous Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. It also includes ten essays that were withdrawn or left unpublished by Hume for various reasons. The two most important were deemed too controversial for the religious climate of his time. This revised edition reflects changes based on further comparisons with eighteenth-century texts and an extensive reworking of the index. - Publisher.
Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects
Essays moral, political, and literary
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Essays, moral, political, and literary. Part I
Author: David Hume
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethics, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Hume: Political Essays
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A fully annotated edition of Hume's most important political essays.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A fully annotated edition of Hume's most important political essays.
Writing Politics
Author: David Bromwich
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374633
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Explore the tradition of the political essay with this brilliant anthology. David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally uncompromising political writers on the left today. He is also one of our finest intellectual historians and literary critics. In Writing Politics, Bromwich presents twenty-seven essays by different writers from the beginning of the modern political world in the seventeenth century until recent times, essays that grapple with issues that continue to shape history—revolution and war, racism, women’s rights, the status of the worker, the nature of citizenship, imperialism, violence and nonviolence, among them—and essays that have also been chosen as superlative examples of the power of written English to reshape our thoughts and the world. Jonathan Swift, Edmund Burke, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, George Eliot, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mohandas Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, Martin Luther King, and Hannah Arendt are here, among others, along with a wide-ranging introduction.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681374633
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Explore the tradition of the political essay with this brilliant anthology. David Bromwich is one of the most well-informed, cogent, and morally uncompromising political writers on the left today. He is also one of our finest intellectual historians and literary critics. In Writing Politics, Bromwich presents twenty-seven essays by different writers from the beginning of the modern political world in the seventeenth century until recent times, essays that grapple with issues that continue to shape history—revolution and war, racism, women’s rights, the status of the worker, the nature of citizenship, imperialism, violence and nonviolence, among them—and essays that have also been chosen as superlative examples of the power of written English to reshape our thoughts and the world. Jonathan Swift, Edmund Burke, Henry David Thoreau, Harriet Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, George Eliot, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mohandas Gandhi, Virginia Woolf, Martin Luther King, and Hannah Arendt are here, among others, along with a wide-ranging introduction.
Hume: Political Writings
Author: David Hume
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872201606
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The first thematically arranged collection of Hume's political writings, this new work brings together substantive selections from A Treatise on Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Essays: Moral, Political and Literary, with an interpretive introduction placing Hume in the context of contemporary debates between liberalism and its critics and between contextual and universal approaches.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872201606
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The first thematically arranged collection of Hume's political writings, this new work brings together substantive selections from A Treatise on Human Nature, An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, and Essays: Moral, Political and Literary, with an interpretive introduction placing Hume in the context of contemporary debates between liberalism and its critics and between contextual and universal approaches.
Politics and the English Language and Other Essays
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: epubli
ISBN: 3753145165
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
"Politics and the English Language and Other Essays" is a collection of 6 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Included in this collection: - Politics and the English Language - Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels - The Prevention of Literature - Why I Write - Writers and Leviathan - Poetry and the Microphone
Publisher: epubli
ISBN: 3753145165
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
"Politics and the English Language and Other Essays" is a collection of 6 essays by George Orwell. Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Included in this collection: - Politics and the English Language - Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels - The Prevention of Literature - Why I Write - Writers and Leviathan - Poetry and the Microphone