Complete Essays: Volume 2

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Complete Essays: Volume 2

Editorial: penguin_classics

ISBN: 978-02-4160-457-1

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241604571

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 608

Fecha de publicación: 2028-05-25

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

Complete Essays: Volume 2

Editorial: penguin_classics

ISBN: 978-02-4173-086-7

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241730867

Tipo de cubierta: Hardcover

Páginas: 736

Fecha de publicación: 2026-05-28

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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Complete Essays: Volume 2

David Hume

Primera publicación: 2026-05-28

David Hume reshaped, redirected, and re-energised the English essay. His sceptical, rational, self-questioning persona created what amounted to a new intellectual arena, in which it was possible to think afresh about the world and the self. When he famously wrote that ‘the life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster’, something had changed. David Womersley has spent a lifetime studying the literature of the eighteenth century. This definitive new two-volume edition of the essays follows Hume’s division of his essays into two parts, and allows the modern reader to enjoy this extraordinary writer in all his moods, from benign optimism to gloomy foreboding. The editorial apparatus supplies indispensable intellectual and bibliographical context for these rewarding, humane, and yet also subtly provocative writings. Volume 1 is published simultaneously.