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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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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