Mises Review
Author:
David Gordon
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The Politics of Custom Mises Review 4, No. 3 (Fall 1998) PHILOSOPHICAL MELANCHOLY AND DELIRIUM Donald W. Livingston University of Chicago Press, 1998, xix + 433 pgs. Donald Livingston’s brilliant Philosophical Melancholy ranks as the most unusual philosophy book I have ever read. What starts as an analysis of David Hume’s conception of philosophy