Description: A new and highly original reading of Hume's landmark text, A Treatise of Human Nature.
Review Quotes: "Finlay succeeds in situating Hume's intellectual project at the start of a tradition of philosophy that rejects the civic focus on politics. Instead the distinctly modern ideas of economic growth and the subsequent social benefits of refinement from everyday interaction are revealed as Hume's abiding concern" -Political Economy and Commerical Society in the Scottish Enlightenment--Sanford Lakoff