Author: HUME (David):
Title: The Letters of David Hume. Edited by J. Y. T. Greig. AND: New Letters of David Hume. Edited by Raymond Klibansky and Ernest C. Mossner.
Description: Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1932, 1954. FIRST EDITIONS. 3 volumes. 8vo, pp. xxxii, 532; [vi], 498, 8vo, pp. xxxii, 532; [vi], 498, portrait frontispiece in each volume, original cloth. A very good set, with the autograph of A. M. Kinghorn, Scottish literary scholar and editor, in volumes 1 and 2, and the following inscription in volume 3 (New Letters), "Alexandro Kinghorn/ Scoto/ Scotorum rerum/ docto acutissimoque indefatori/ d. d. d./ Raymundus Klibansky/ Ad Montem Regium - Mense Februario A. D., MDCLVII." A. M. Kinghorn is the Scottish literary scholar and editor Alexander Manson Kinghorn, who published widely on Scottish poetry, ancient and modern, as well as on drama and Shakespeare. The acclaimed German-Canadian historian of philosophy Raymond Klibansky (1905-2005) studied at Hamburg and Heidelberg before becoming a lecturer at Oriel College, Oxford. "He became a British citizen in 1938, and during the Second World War was attached to the Political Warfare Executive, based at Woburn Abbey. He worked at first on Germany, then on preparation for the allied invasion of Italy, and after the war on the denazification programme in Germany." After the war, in 1946, Klibansky became "the Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at McGill University", also lecturing at the Université de Montréal. From "1966 to 1969 he was President of the International Institute of Philosophy, and subsequently its honorary president", and between 1981 to 1995 he was Fellow of Wolfson College at Oxford. "In 1999 he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 2000 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada in recognition for being 'one of the greatest intellectuals of our time' " (Wikipedia). The online Canadian Encyclopedia singles out Klibansky's book "Saturn and Melancholy (1989), written in collaboration with E. Panofsky and F. Saxl" as "a masterpiece in the history of ideas."

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