Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. I EASY AND OBVIOUS
6. 1 Acting in Character 3
7. 2 Impersonation, the Very Idea 22
8. 3 Hume’s Excellent Hypocrites 35
9. 4 Hume’s Treatment of Oliver Cromwell 58
10. 5 Hume and the Conformity of Bishop Tunstal 81
11. 6 Hume’s Deathbed Reading: A Tale of Three Letters 100
12. II MORE DIFFICULT AND ABSTRUSE
13. 7 Hume’s Impressions and His Other Metaphors 113
14. 8 The Life and Mortality of the Mind 147
15. 9 Hume’s Labyrinth 182
16. 10 A Voice, as from the Next Room 205
17. 11 The Energy in the Cause 224
18. 12 Hume’s Post-Impressionism 237
19. 13 Why Hume Asked Us Not to Read the Treatise 257
20. Conclusion Hume’s Curriculum Vitae: His “Own Life,” Written by Himself 265
21. Index of Persons 283
22. Subject Index 287