Dennis C. Rasmussen

The Pragmatic Enlightenment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four key eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781107622999
• ISBN-10: 1107622999
• Artikelnr.: 50201200

Autorenporträt

Dennis C. Rasmussen is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau (2008), which received an honorable mention for the Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Hegemonic Universalism?: 1. Morality in context
2. Pragmatic liberalism
Part II. Blind Faith in Reason?: 3. The age of the limits of reason
4. The perils of political rationalism
Part III. Atomistic Individualism?: 5. The social and encumbered self
6. Negative liberty for a positive community
Conclusion.