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

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

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...