CONTENTS

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-x

Introduction

pp 1-10

I - Writing Philosophy

1 - Philosophy/Non-Philosophy and Derrida's (Non) Relations with Eighteenth-Century Empiricism

pp 11-30

2 - Locke'ss Desire

pp 31-50

3 - Philosophy and Politeness, Moral Autonomy and Malleability in Shaftesbury's Characteristics

pp 51-68

4 - Reid, Writing and the Mechanics of Common Sense

pp 69-86

II - Reading Hume

5 - Preposterous Hume

pp 87-108

6 - Aesthetic Sensibility and the Contours of Sympathy Through Hume's Insertions to the Treatise

pp 109-122

7 - David Hume and Jane Austen on Pride: Ethics in the Enlightenment

pp 123-138

8 - Hume, Religion, Literary Form: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

pp 139-160

III - Thinking Literature

9 - The Epistemology of Genre

pp 161-176

10 - The Primitive in Adam Smith's History

pp 177-192

11 - Can Julie Be Trusted? Rousseau and the Crisis of Constancy in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy

pp 193-210

12 - After the Summum Bonum: Novels, Treatises and the Enquiry after Happiness

pp 211-224

13 - Music vs Conscience in Wordsworth's Poetry

pp 225-238

Notes

pp 239-284

Works Cited

pp 285-306

Index

pp 307-313