Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment : : The Roman Past and Europe's Future / / Iain McDaniel.
Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe...
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McDaniel, Iain, author. Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment : The Roman Past and Europe's Future / Iain McDaniel. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Montesquieu and the Unfree Republic -- 2 Military Government and Empire in the Scottish Enlightenment -- 3 Ferguson and the Moral Foundations of Civil Society -- 4 Trajectories of the Modern Commercial State -- 5 Britain's Future in a Roman Mirror -- 6 Civil- Military Union and the Modern State -- 7 Revolution and Modern Republicanism -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe's growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome's lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. Ferguson viewed the intrinsic power struggle between civil and military authorities as the central dilemma of modern constitutional governments. He believed that the key to understanding the forces that propel nations toward tyranny lay in analysis of ancient Roman history. It was the alliance between popular and militaristic factions within the Roman republic, Ferguson believed, which ultimately precipitated its downfall. Democratic forces, intended as a means of liberation from tyranny, could all too easily become the engine of political oppression-a fear that proved prescient when the French Revolution spawned the expansionist wars of Napoleon. As Iain McDaniel makes clear, Ferguson's skepticism about the ability of constitutional states to weather pervasive conditions of warfare and emergency has particular relevance for twenty-first-century geopolitics. This revelatory study will resonate with debates over the troubling tendency of powerful democracies to curtail civil liberties and pursue imperial ambitions. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Enlightenment Scotland. Republicanism Rome History. HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century. PHILOSOPHY / Political. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. (DE-601)104306831 (DE-588)4003524-4 Aufklärung gnd (DE-601)105813125 (DE-588)4115590-7 Politisches Denken gnd HISTORY / Europe / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013 9783110317350 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY, POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2013 9783110317121 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2013 9783110317114 ZDB-23-DPS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP Complete eBook Package 2011-2014 9783110374889 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package 2013 9783110374902 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459517 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110662566 print 9780674072961 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674075269 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674075269.jpg |
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McDaniel, Iain, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment : The Roman Past and Europe's Future / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Montesquieu and the Unfree Republic -- 2 Military Government and Empire in the Scottish Enlightenment -- 3 Ferguson and the Moral Foundations of Civil Society -- 4 Trajectories of the Modern Commercial State -- 5 Britain's Future in a Roman Mirror -- 6 Civil- Military Union and the Modern State -- 7 Revolution and Modern Republicanism -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Montesquieu and the Unfree Republic -- 2 Military Government and Empire in the Scottish Enlightenment -- 3 Ferguson and the Moral Foundations of Civil Society -- 4 Trajectories of the Modern Commercial State -- 5 Britain's Future in a Roman Mirror -- 6 Civil- Military Union and the Modern State -- 7 Revolution and Modern Republicanism -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index |
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