Complete Essays: Volume 2, 9780241730867
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Hume’s essays: A new intellectual arena, sceptical, rational, and provocative.
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Complete Essays: Volume 2

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    704 pages

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    9 February 2026

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Summary

Hume’s Unsettling Peace: Essays That Shook the Enlightenment

A superb new edition of essays by one of the greatest and most enjoyable prose writers in English. David Hume reshaped, redirected, and re-energized the English essay. His skeptical, 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 univer…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780241730867
ISBN-10:0241730864
Author:David Hume, David Womersley
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:704
Release Date:9 February 2026
Weight:750g
Dimensions:240mm x 156mm x 40mm
About The Author

David Hume

David Womersley is the Thomas Warton Professor of Literature at the University of Oxford. Among his interests are Jonathan Swift (he was the general editor of the CUP edition of Swift), Daniel Defoe and Edward Gibbon, whose Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire he edited for Penguin Classics.

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