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Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains a set of essays that analyse Ferguson's philosophical, political and sociological writings and the discourse which they prompted between Ferguson and other important figures.

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Author:   Eugene Heath
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138663442

ISBN 10:   1138663441
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction, Eugene Heath, Vincenzo Merolle; Part I Life and Works; Chapter 1 Ferguson the Highlander, Michael Fry; Chapter 2 Adam Ferguson, the 43rd, and the Fictions of Fontenoy, Bruce Buchan; Part II Philosophy; Chapter 3 Why Did David Hume Dislike Adam Ferguson’s an Essay on The History of Civil Society?, David Raynor; Chapter 4 Hume as Critic of Ferguson’s Essay, Vincenzo Merolle; Chapter 5 The Two Adams: Ferguson and Smith on Sympathy and Sentiment, Jack Russell Weinstein; Part III Politics; Chapter 6 A Complicated Vision: The Good Polity in Adam Ferguson’s Thought, Lisa Hill; Chapter 7 Adam Ferguson and Enlightened Provincial Ideology in Scotland, Michael Kugler; Part IV Society; Chapter 8 ‘But Art Itself is Natural to Man’: Ferguson and the Principle of Simultaneity, Christopher J. Berry; Chapter 9 Ferguson on the Unintended Emergence of Social Order, Eugene Heath;

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