Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society
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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Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society
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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Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society

Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society

by Eugene Heath
Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society

Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society

by Eugene Heath

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781851968657
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/01/2008
Series: The Enlightenment World , #8
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Eugene Heath, Vincenzo Merolle

Table of Contents

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;
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