Adam Smith and Rousseau : : Ethics, Politics, Economics / / Craig Smith, Maria Pia Paganelli, Dennis C. Rasmussen.

Looks at all aspects of the pivotal intellectual relationship between two key figures of the EnlightenmentThis collection brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau scholars to explore the key shared concerns of these two great thinkers in po...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy : ESSP
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Citations and Abbreviations
  • Series Editor’s Introduction
  • Part I Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. On the Place of Politics in Commercial Society
  • 3. Rousseau and the Scottish Enlightenment: Connections and Disconnections
  • Part II Self-interest and Sympathy
  • 4. The Role of Interpersonal Comparisons in Moral Learning and the Sources of Recognition Respect: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s amour-propre and Adam Smith’s Sympathy
  • 5. Actors and Spectators: Rousseau’s Contribution to the Eighteenth-century Debate on Self-interest
  • 6. Pursuing Sympathy without Vanity: Interpreting Smith’s Critique of Rousseau through Smith’s Critique of Mandeville
  • Part III Moral Sentiments and Spectatorship
  • 7. Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Vices of the Marketplace
  • 8. Julie’s Garden and the Impartial Spectator: An Examination of Smithian Themes in Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse
  • 9. Sentimental Conviction: Rousseau’s Apologia and the Impartial Spectator
  • Part IV Commercial Society and Justice
  • 10. Being and Appearing: Self-falsification, Exchange and Freedom in Rousseau and Adam Smith
  • 11. Citizens, Markets and Social Order: An Aristotelian Reading of Smith and Rousseau on Justice
  • Part V Politics and Freedom
  • 12. Smith, Rousseau and the True Spirit of a Republican
  • 13. Left to Their Own Devices: Smith and Rousseau on Public Opinion and the Role of the State
  • 14. ‘Savage Patriotism’, Justice and Cosmopolitics in Smith and Rousseau
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index