Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium
Hume’s Pathology of Philosophy
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Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Pt. 1: Humean Reflections
1: Is Hume an Empiricist?
2: The Dialectic of True and False Philosophy
3: The Origin of the Philosophical Act in Human Nature
4: The Ancient Philosophy
5: Philosophy and Christendom
6: The Modern Philosophy
7: True Philosophy and the Skeptical Tradition
8: True Philosophy and Civilization
9: False Philosophy and Barbarism
10: English Barbarism: "Wilkes and Liberty!"
11: English Barbarism: "The Poor Infatuated Americans"
Pt. 2: Humean Intimations
12: Hume and America
13: The Right of Resistance: A Humean Free State versus a Modern Consolidated Leviathan
14: The Right of Resistance: Secession and the Modern State
15: Preserving One’s Humanity in the First Philosophic Age
Notes
Index
List of Abbreviations
Pt. 1: Humean Reflections
1: Is Hume an Empiricist?
2: The Dialectic of True and False Philosophy
3: The Origin of the Philosophical Act in Human Nature
4: The Ancient Philosophy
5: Philosophy and Christendom
6: The Modern Philosophy
7: True Philosophy and the Skeptical Tradition
8: True Philosophy and Civilization
9: False Philosophy and Barbarism
10: English Barbarism: "Wilkes and Liberty!"
11: English Barbarism: "The Poor Infatuated Americans"
Pt. 2: Humean Intimations
12: Hume and America
13: The Right of Resistance: A Humean Free State versus a Modern Consolidated Leviathan
14: The Right of Resistance: Secession and the Modern State
15: Preserving One’s Humanity in the First Philosophic Age
Notes
Index
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