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

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