The Opinion of Mankind : : Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith / / Paul Sagar.

How David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern stateWhat is the modern state? Conspicuously undertheorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated the best minds of the Enlightenment. Recovering David Hume and Adam Smith's long-underappreciat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Sociability
  • Chapter 2. History And The Family
  • Chapter 3. The State Without Sovereignty
  • Chapter 4. Rousseau's Return To Hobbes
  • Chapter 5. Adam Smith'S Political Theory Of Opinion
  • Chapter 6. Alternatives And Applications
  • Index