Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. List of Abbreviations and Conventions ix
5. Series Editor’s Introduction xi
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. ‘The Empire of the Imagination’: The Association of Ideas in Hume’s Social Philosophy 27
8. 3. ‘What is Established’?: Hume’s Social Philosophy of Opinion 58
9. 4. ‘Refinement’ and ‘Vicious Luxury’: Hume’s Nuanced Defence of Luxury 92
10. 5. Taming ‘the Tyranny of Priests’: Hume’s Advocacy of Religious Establishments 131
11. 6. How ‘To Refine the Democracy’: Hume’s Perfect Commonwealth as a Development of his Political Science 177
12. 7. Human Society ‘in Perpetual Flux’: Hume’s Pendulum Theory of Civilisation 214
13. 8. ‘The Prince of Sceptics’ and ‘The Prince of Historians’: Hume’s Influence and Image in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain 242
14. Conclusion 273
15. Bibliography 284
16. Index 334