In a message dated 9/7/00 6:14:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< So why haven't post-modernists taken Hume seriously? Especially since
a lot of what I read from them sounds like it was cribbed from Hume?
>>
Hume is an empiricist. He takes science seriously. He writes beautifully and
lucidly. He argues very carefully. He's a conservative of a rather more
boring but sensible sort that Nietzsche, the pomist's reactionary of choice.
He is a fairly unreflective racist, typical of his time; also a sexist
(unlike Hobbes, for example). He isn't canonical in pomist lit--Derrida, etc.
don't write about him, because he's not in their scope. --jks
