Hume and Saint-Lambert on Arts, Luxury and Civilisation
ŞTEFAN-SEBASTIAN MAFTEI Abstract The focus of the paper is to review an early episode from the modern history of the politics and the arts: the XVIIIth century French reception of the debate on the role of luxury and the arts and sciences in “free” states, as it unfolds in two of David Hume’s essays: Of … [Read more…]