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Product Description: This volume on Hume's politics brings together essays that have been formative of the scholarly and more general debate about Hume's political thought. Unlike many theorists who express their thought in terms of system, Hume uses the incidental genre of the essay as the vehicle for his writing and his mode of presentation is a reflection, indeed an expression, of his belief in the limited power of reason to give any over-all shape to human life...read more

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When Joan Collins was agonising over her autobiography, her agent held up his hand and said, 'Look Joan, don't worry. All they want to know is who you slept with.' Unsurprisingly, the book was a big success.

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