{"product_id":"9780367664565-hume-on-art-emotion-superstition","title":"Hume on Art, Emotion, and Superstition","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Critical Study of the Four Dissertations. \u003cp\u003eThis book offers the first comprehensive critical study of David Hume’s \u003ci\u003eFour Dissertations \u003c\/i\u003eof 1757. This book is an important contribution to the scholarly literature on Hume’s work on the passions, art, and superstitious belief.\u003c\/p\u003e. \u003cp\u003eThis book offers the first comprehensive critical study of David Hume’s \u003ci\u003eFour Dissertations \u003c\/i\u003eof 1757, containing the \u003ci\u003eNatural History of Religion\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eDissertation on the Passions\u003c\/i\u003e, and the two essays \u003ci\u003eOf Tragedy \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOf the Standard of Taste\u003c\/i\u003e. The author defends two important claims. The first is that these four works were not published together merely for convenience, but that they form a tightly integrated set, unified by the subject matter of the passions. The second is that the theory of the passions they jointly present is significantly different—indeed, significantly \u003ci\u003eimproved\u003c\/i\u003e—from that of the earlier \u003ci\u003eTreatise\u003c\/i\u003e. Most strikingly, it is anti-egoist and anti-hedonist about motivation, where the \u003ci\u003eTreatise \u003c\/i\u003ehad espoused a Lockean hedonism and egoism. It is also more cognitivist in its analysis of the passions themselves, and demonstrates a greater awareness of the limits of sympathy and of the varieties of human taste. This book is an important contribution to the scholarly literature on Hume’s work on the passions, art, and superstitious belief.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40810265051233,"sku":"9780367664565","price":47.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/ed2d5b27e0db6cec809fd0fc74e13ef9.png?v=1682674889","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780367664565-hume-on-art-emotion-superstition","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}