Records the ways in which David Hume has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of Europe. This collection of essays considers how and where Hume's works were initially understood throughout Europe. They reflect on how early European responses to Hume relied on available French translations.

Series Editor's Preface, Elinor Shaffer; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Timeline; Introduction, Peter Jones; 1. Hume's Reception in Ireland; M.A. Stewart, UK; 2. The Early British Reception of Hume's Writings on Religion; M.A. Stewart, UK; 3. Hume's Reception in France; Michel Malherbe, University of Nantes, France; 4. The Reception of Hume in Germany; Manfred Kuehn, Boston University, USA; 5. David Hume and Sir James Steuart; Andrew S. Skinner, University of Glasgow, UK; 6. Hume's Reception in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia; Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Canada; 7. Italian Responses to David Hume; Paola Zanardi, University of Ferrara, Italy. 8. Translations of Hume's Works in Italy; Emilio Mazza, Universita IULM, Italy; 9. Hume in Russia; Tatiana V. Artemieva, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia and Mikhail I. Mikeshin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia; 10. The Reception of David Hume's Philosophy in Sweden; Henrik Lagerlund, Uppasala University, Sweden; 11. David Hume and Polish Philosophical and Social Thought; Bozena Kusnierz, Poland; 12. 'Ignoramus': David Hume's Idea's in the Hungarian Enlightenment; Pal Acs, University of Budapest, Hungary; 13. The Reception of David Hume in Czech Thought; Josef Moural, Charles University, Czech Republic; 14. The Reception of David Hume in Romania; Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; 15. Canonization and Critique: Hume's Reputation as a Historian; Mark Salber Phillips, Carleton University, Canada and Dale R. Smith, University College of the Fraser Valley, Canada; 16. The Reception of Hume in Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy; James A. Harris, University of St. Andrews, UK; 17. The Scientific Reception of Hume's Theory of Causation: Establishing the Positivist Interpretation in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland; John P. Wright, Central Michigan University, USA; Bibliography; Index.

"The Reception of David Hume in Europe provides invaluable clues as to how the reception of an author's work impacts its status as a classic.  And, perhaps more importantly, it presses us to revise our conception of what is now, particularly in the Anglo-American world, taken to be the quintessential philosophical classic, namely Hume's Treatise of Human Nature...The Reception can be read as telling the history of the different lives of Hume's works - the story of the 'making of' what is now, for us, a philosophical classic...And this story needs to be told." -Alix Cohen, New Essays on David Hume

Our knowledge of British and Irish authors is incomplete and inadequate without an understanding of the perspectives of other nations on them. Each volume examines the ways authors have been translated, published, distributed, read, reviewed and discussed in Europe. In doing so, it throws light not only on the specific strands of intellectual and cultural history but also on the processes involved in the dissemination of ideas and texts.