Complete Essays (David Hume)

This new two-volume Penguin edition collects David Hume’s complete essays with extensive editorial notes, newly included manuscript material, and scholarly apparatus prepared by David Womersley.

Hume’s essays explore human nature, morality, politics, and aesthetics, written with clarity and intellectual rigor that influenced Enlightenment thinking.

Womersley’s edition aims to provide comprehensive text-critical work and contextual annotation for contemporary readers and scholars.

The volumes offer both accessible readings of Hume’s arguments and the editorial scholarship necessary for academic study.

This edition seeks to balance readability with authoritative textual scholarship, making Hume’s essays available in a full, annotated format.