The Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment / / Christopher Berry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Berry, Christopher,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; 1 The Enlightenment and Scotland --; 2 Sociality and the Critique of Individualism --; 3 Science, Explanation and History --; 4 Social Diversity --; 5 Social History --; 6 Commercial Society --; 7 Social Values --; 8 Reading the Scottish Enlightenment --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748673865; 9783110780475
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748673865
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christopher Berry.

David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, John Millar, James Dunbar and Gilbert Stuart were at the heart of Scottish Enlightenment thought. This introductory survey offers the student a clear, accessible interpretation and synthesis of the social thought of these historically significant thinkers. Organised thematically, it takes the student through their accounts of social institutions, their critique of individualism, their methodology, their views of progress and of moral and cultural values. By taking human sociality as their premise, the book shows how they produced important analyses of historical change, politics and morality, together with an assessment of their own commercial society.