Series Editor's Preface - Elinor Shaffer; Acknowledgements List of Contributors Timeline Introduction - Peter Jones 1. Hume's Reception in Ireland - M.A. Stewart 2. The Early British Reception of Hume's Writings on Religion - M.A. Stewart 3. Hume's Reception in France - Michel Malherbe 4. The Reception of Hume in Germany - Manfred Kuehn 5. David Hume and Sir James Steuart - Andrew S. Skinner 6. Italian Responses to David Hume - Paola Zanardi 7. Translations of Hume's Works in Italy - Emilio Mazza 8. Hume in Russia; Tatiana V. Artemieva and Mikhail I. Mikeshin 9. The Reception of David Hume's Philosophy in Sweden - Henrik Lagerlund 10. David Hume and Polish Philosophical and Social Thought - Bozena Kusnierz; 11. 'Ignoramus': David Hume's Ideas in the Hungarian Enlightenment - Pál Ács; 12. The Reception of David Hume in Czech Thought - Josef Moural; 13. The Reception of David Hume in Romania - Andreea Deciu Ritivoi; 14. Canonization and Critique: Hume's Reputation as a Historian - Mark Salber Phillips and Dale R. Smith; 15. The Reception of Hume in Nineteenth-Century British Philosophy - James A. Harris;16. The Scientific Reception of Hume's Theory of Causation: Establishing the Positivist Interpretation in Early Nineteenth-Century Scotland - John P. Wright; 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.

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.