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Feminist Interpretations of David Hume (review)

Feminist Interpretations of David Hume (review) , pp. 181-185 ANNEJAAP JACOBSON, ed. Feminist Interpretations of David Hume. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 323. ISBN 0-27101971-9, cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-2170-1972-7, paper, $19.95. This collection of thirteen essays and editor's introduction is part of a "Re-reading the Canon" series that includes already published volumes of feminist interpretation of philosophers ranging from Plato and Aristotle to de Beauvoir and Derrida. The essays in this volume on David Hume cover the breadth of his work and aim to engage it with the concerns and challenges characteristic of feminist scholarship. No doubt many of us would welcome an essay collection of uniformly high quality to provide feminist perspec- tives on Hume and the philosophical questions he addresses; such would be useful, for example, to supplement standard reading in courses on Hume or early modern philosophy. Although I hesitate to recommend the volume as a whole in such a capacity, a number of the essays warrant the attention of scholars and students of Hume's writing. All but one of the essays in the volume are published here for the first time. The usual constraints preclude discussing each in turn or doing justice to the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

Feminist Interpretations of David Hume (review)

Mason, Michelle.
Hume Studies , Volume 27 (1) – Jan 26, 2001
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, pp. 181-185 ANNEJAAP JACOBSON, ed. Feminist Interpretations of David Hume. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 323. ISBN 0-27101971-9, cloth, $55.00. ISBN 0-2170-1972-7, paper, $19.95. This collection of thirteen essays and editor's introduction is part of a "Re-reading the Canon" series that includes already published volumes of feminist interpretation of philosophers ranging from Plato and Aristotle to de Beauvoir and Derrida. The essays in this volume on David Hume cover the breadth of his work and aim to engage it with the concerns and challenges characteristic of feminist scholarship. No doubt many of us would welcome an essay collection of uniformly high quality to provide feminist perspec- tives on Hume and the philosophical questions he addresses; such would be useful, for example, to supplement standard reading in courses on Hume or early modern philosophy. Although I hesitate to recommend the volume as a whole in such a capacity, a number of the essays warrant the attention of scholars and students of Hume's writing. All but one of the essays in the volume are published here for the first time. The usual constraints preclude discussing each in turn or doing justice to the

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