Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment The Roman Past and Europe's Future

Name: Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment The Roman Past and Europe's Future
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ISBN: 9780674072961

ISBN-10: 0674072960

ISBN-13: 9780674072961

Edition: 2013

Authors: Iain McDaniel

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Although overshadowed by his contemporaries Adam Smith and David Hume, the Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson strongly influenced eighteenth-century currents of political thought. A major reassessment of this neglected figure, Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe’s Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe’s growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship.Ferguson viewed the…

Book details

List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/18/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Montesquieu and the Unfree Republic



Military Government and Empire in the Scottish Enlightenment



Ferguson and the Moral Foundations of Civil Society



Trajectories of the Modern Commercial State



Britain's Future in a Roman Mirror



Civil-Military Union and the Modern State



Revolution and Modern Republicanism


Conclusion


Abbreviations


Notes


Index