Death and Character : : Further Reflections on Hume / / Annette C. Baier.
Reviewing Annette Baier’s 1995 work Moral Prejudices in the London Review of Books, Richard Rorty predicted that her work would be read hundreds of years hence; Baier’s subsequent work has borne out such expectations, and this new book further extends her reach. Here she goes beyond her earlier work...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- I EASY AND OBVIOUS
- 1 Acting in Character
- 2 Impersonation, the Very Idea
- 3 Hume’s Excellent Hypocrites
- 4 Hume’s Treatment of Oliver Cromwell
- 5 Hume and the Conformity of Bishop Tunstal
- 6 Hume’s Deathbed Reading: A Tale of Three Letters
- II MORE DIFFICULT AND ABSTRUSE
- 7 Hume’s Impressions and His Other Metaphors
- 8 The Life and Mortality of the Mind
- 9 Hume’s Labyrinth
- 10 A Voice, as from the Next Room
- 11 The Energy in the Cause
- 12 Hume’s Post-Impressionism
- 13 Why Hume Asked Us Not to Read the Treatise
- Conclusion Hume’s Curriculum Vitae: His “Own Life,” Written by Himself
- Index of Persons
- Subject Index