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Hume in 90 Minutes
Contributor(s): Strathern, Paul (Author), Whitfield, Robert (Read by)
ISBN: 0786185309     ISBN-13: 9780786185306
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
OUR PRICE:   $13.46  
Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats
Published: August 2004
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - General
Dewey: 192
Series: Philosophers in 90 Minutes (Audio)
Physical Information: 0.24" H x 4.9" W x 5.76" (0.25 lbs)
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 18th Century
- Cultural Region - Scottish
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:
Hume reduced philosophy to ruins: he denied the existence of everything--except our actual perceptions themselves. I alone exist, he argued, and the world is nothing more than part of my consciousness. Yet we know that the world remains, and we go on as before. What Hume expressed was the status of our knowledge about the world, a world in which neither religion nor science is certain. In Hume in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Hume's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also includes selections from Hume's work, a brief list of suggested readings for those who wish to delve deeper, and chronologies that place Hume within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.

Contributor Bio(s): Strathern, Paul: -

Paul Strathern earned a degree in philosophy at Trinity College, Dublin, and has lectured in philosophy and mathematics. The author of many nonfiction books and of articles for numerous publications, he has also written several novels and has won the Somerset Maugham Prize. He lives and writes in London.

Whitfield, Robert: -

Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over forty Earphones Awards. He has won thirteen prestigious Audie Awards and was Booklist's very first Voice of Choice in 2008. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks over almost thirty years, beginning when he was a radio newsreader for the BBC in London.