Adam Ferguson : philosophy, politics and society

La 4e de couverture indique : "In these essays, scholars analyse Ferguson's philosophical, political and sociological writings and the discourse which they prompted between Ferguson and other important figures such as David Hume and Adam Smith." "Much secondary literature on Ferg...

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Autres auteurs : Heath Eugene (Éditeur scientifique), Merolle Vincenzo (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Adam Ferguson : philosophy, politics and society / edited by Eugene Heath and Vincenzo Merolle
Publié : London, Brookfield (Vt.) : Pickering & Chatto , 2009
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VII-247 p.)
Collection : The enlightenment world ; 8
Sujets :
  • Ferguson the highlander / Michael Fry
  • Adam Ferguson, the 43rd, and the fictions of Fontenoy / Bruce Buchan
  • Why did David Hume dislike Adam Ferguson's essay on the history of civil society? / David Raynor
  • Hume as critic of Ferguson's essay / Vincenzo Merolle
  • The two Adams : Ferguson and Smith on sympathy and sentiment / Jack Russel Weinstein
  • A complicated vision : the good polity in Adam Ferguson's thought / Lisa Hill
  • Adam Ferguson and enlightened provincial ideology in Scotland / Michael Kugler
  • 'But art itself is natural to man' : Ferguson and the principle of simultaneity / Christopher J. Berry
  • Ferguson and the unintended emergence of social order / Eugene Heath