Eugene Heath

Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains a set of essays that analyse Ferguson's philosophical, political and sociological writings and the discourse which they prompted between Ferguson and other important figures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317315339
• Artikelnr.: 43978362

Autorenporträt

Eugene Heath, Vincenzo Merolle

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Eugene Heath, Vincenzo Merolle
Part I Life and Works
Chapter 1 Ferguson the Highlander, Michael Fry
Chapter 2 Adam Ferguson, the 43rd, and the Fictions of Fontenoy, Bruce Buchan
Part II Philosophy
Chapter 3 Why Did David Hume Dislike Adam Ferguson's an Essay on The History of Civil Society?, David Raynor
Chapter 4 Hume as Critic of Ferguson's Essay, Vincenzo Merolle
Chapter 5 The Two Adams: Ferguson and Smith on Sympathy and Sentiment, Jack Russell Weinstein
Part III Politics
Chapter 6 A Complicated Vision: The Good Polity in Adam Ferguson's Thought, Lisa Hill
Chapter 7 Adam Ferguson and Enlightened Provincial Ideology in Scotland, Michael Kugler
Part IV Society
Chapter 8 'But Art Itself is Natural to Man': Ferguson and the Principle of Simultaneity, Christopher J. Berry
Chapter 9 Ferguson on the Unintended Emergence of Social Order, Eugene Heath