Political Thought of Hume and His Contemporaries : Enlightenment Projects (Multiple-component retail product)

Selected Contents: Volume 1 1. Property as Artifice: Hume and Blackstone 2. Hume and Contractarianism 3. The Place of Contract in Burke’s Political Theory 4. Grotian Resistance Theory from Hume to Burke 5. Time, Revolution, and Prescriptive Right in Hume’s Theory of Government 6. Church Establishments, Liberty, and Competition in Religion 7. Vattel’s Doctrine of the State 8. Robertson, Hume, and the Balance of Power 9. Hume on the Laws of Nations, Chastity, and Double Standards 10. "Contrary Effects" and the Reverse Invisible Hand in Hume and Smith 11. Population and Ideology in the Enlightenment Conclusion Volume 2 1.Vattel’s Doctrine of the State 2. Robertson, Hume, and the Balance of Power 3. Hume on the Laws of Nations, Chastity, and Double Standards 4. " Contrary Effects" and the Reverse Invisible Hand in Hume and Smith 5. Population and Ideology in the Enlightenment 6. Explaining Imperial Decline in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Thought