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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
By Rasmussen, Dennis C.
- ISBN
- 9780691177014 9781400888467
- Publisher
- Princeton Univ.
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Reviewed on July 1, 2017 | Arts and Humanities
David Hume and Adam Smith were best friends. Rasmussen (political science, Tufts Univ.; The Pragmatic Enlightenment) "follows the course of their friendship from their first meeting in 1749 until Hume's death" in 1776. Evidence is drawn from their extant correspondence (56 letters, mostly Hume's; Smith's first surviving letter to Hume dates to 1763), but the life and writings of both men are helpfully situated within a broader Scottish-Enlightenment cont...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
