“Hume Sweet Hume”: skepticism, idealism, and burial in Finnegans wake

What is the relationship between the Irish modernist writings of James Joyce and the Scottish empirical philosophy of David Hume? Here I discuss Joyce’s conception of Hume as a philosopher and explore the presence of Hume’s work in Joyce’s final masterpiece, Finnegans Wake. How then did Joyce concei...

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Main Author: Barlow, Richard Alan
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106138
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/23945
http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/phl.2014.0017
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English