Impressions of Hume

Impressions of Hume is an interdisciplinary volume of new essays from leading scholars on the work of David Hume. To some his writings are vehicles for intuitions, problems, and arguments which are at the centre 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 modernity; these are 'open' texts which present their reader with a bounty of different materials and inspirations. Frasca-Spada and Kail believe that the borders between these approaches are far from neat, and that as much cross-fertilization as possible is to be promoted. Impressions of Hume amply demonstrates the rewards of such an approach.