Politics in Commercial Society : : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith /

Politics in Commercial Society : : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith / / Istvan Hont; ed. by Michael Sonenscher, Béla Kapossy.

Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of c...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Hont, Istvan,
HerausgeberIn:
Kapossy, Béla,
Sonenscher, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (144 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Editors’ Introduction
  • A Note on the Text
  • 1 Commercial Sociability: The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem
  • 2 Commercial Sociability: The Adam Smith Problem
  • 3 Histories of Government: Which Comes First, Judges or the Law?
  • 4 Histories of Government: Republics, Inequality, and Revolution?
  • 5 Political Economy: Markets, Households, and Invisible Hands
  • 6 Political Economy: Nationalism, Emulation, and War
  • Index

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