The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination 

Aaron Alexander Zubia argues that the Epicurean roots of David Hume’s philosophy gave rise to liberalism’s unrelenting grip on the modern political imagination. 

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Praise: 

“This book makes a timely and welcome contribution to the literature on Hume’s political philosophy by locating it in the traditions of Epicureanism and social contract thought as well as prospectively within the tradition of liberal political philosophy that flowed from the early modern period.” —Peter S. Fosl, author of Hume’s Scepticism: Pyrrhonian and Academic

"Aaron Zubia’s important book makes a robust case, historical, textual, and philosophical, for interpreting Hume as a modern Epicurean. In wrestling with the implications of the Humean project, he calls us to rejuvenate our political understanding with lost notions of the noble, the good, and the beautiful. His call is worth heeding." —Erik W. Matson, New Paternalism Meets Older Wisdom

"Zubia’s book is bold and consequential. This is a major intervention in political theory." —Pierre Force, author of Self-Interest before Adam Smith

"Aaron Zubia has written the next great book on David Hume. The conventionally-titled book—The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination—is unconventional in its framing, brilliant in its methods, morally serious in its ambitions, and deeply philosophic in its orientation."—Law & Liberty