Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment / / Christopher J. Berry.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Berry, Christopher J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy : ESSP
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (472 p.)

A carefully curated selection of new and classic essays by Scottish Enlightenment expert Christopher J. BerryThis collection of essays by Christopher J. Berry spans several decades and multiple shifts across Scottish Enlightenment, Hume and Smith studies. It brings together classic essays – some of which are difficult to find – with 3 new pieces, which cumulatively constitute a distinct interpretation. Clustered around the themes of sociability, the Humean science of man and the Smithian engagement with commerce and morality, these collected works will be of considerable value to those working in political philosophy, the history of ideas and the history of economic and social theory.Also included is a substantial introduction which, alongside Berry’s personal intellectual history, provides a commentary on the development of the study of the Scottish Enlightenment.Key FeaturesChristopher J. Berry is a leading expert in Scottish Enlightenment scholarshipClustered around the themes of sociability, the Humean science of man and the Smithian engagement with commerce and moralityWill be of considerable value to those working in political philosophy, the history of ideas and the history of economic and social theoryIncludes a substantial introduction which, alongside Berry’s personal intellectual history, provides a commentary on the development of the study of the Scottish Enlightenment

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Series Editor’s Introduction -- Abbreviations Used in This Book -- 1 The Study of the Scottish Enlightenment: An Autobiographical Journey -- Part I The Scottish Enlightenment -- Introduction to Part I -- 2 James Dunbar and Ideas of Sociality and Language in Eighteenth-Century Scotland -- 3 James Dunbar and the Enlightenment Debate on Language -- 4 ‘Climate’ in the Eighteenth Century: James Dunbar and the Scottish Case -- 5 Sociality and Socialisation -- 6 Rude Religion: The Psychology of Polytheism in the Scottish Enlightenment -- 7 ‘But Art itself is Natural to Man’: Adam Ferguson and the Principle of Simultaneity -- 8 Finding Space for Civil Society in the Scottish Enlightenment -- Part II David Hume -- Introduction to Part II -- 9 Hume on Rationality in History and Social Life -- 10 Lusty Women and Loose Imagination: Hume’s Philosophical Anthropology of Chastity -- 11 Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge and Humanity -- 12 Hume’s Universalism: The Science of Man and the Anthropological Point of View -- 13 Hume and Superfluous Value (or the Problem with Epictetus’ Slippers) -- 14 Science and Superstition: Hume and Conservatism -- 15 Hume on Happiness -- Part III Adam Smith -- Introduction to Part III -- 16 Adam Smith’s ‘Considerations’ on Language -- 17 Smith and Science -- 18 Adam Smith: Commerce, Liberty and Modernity -- 19 Adam Smith and the Virtues of a Modern Economy -- 20 Adam Smith’s ‘Science of Human Nature’ -- 21 Adam Smith on Liberty ‘in our present sense of the word’ -- Bibliography -- Index