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9781412804752

Adam Ferguson: His Social and Political Thought

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    9781412804752

  • ISBN10:

    1412804752

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2005-05-31
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

This major study by David Kettler is an ideal introduction to Ferguson’s life and thought. The new preface to this first paperback edition discusses Ferguson’s work in relation to his better-known contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith, while the afterword offers an in-depth reconsideration of Ferguson’s most renowned work, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, with emphasis on present-day disputes about the concept of civil society.

Author Biography

David Kettler is research professor at Bard College in New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition ix
Introduction 3(12)
Part I: Adam Ferguson's Situation
I The Transformation of Scotland
15(18)
II The Emerging Intelligensia
33(9)
III Adam Ferguson: Biography
42(41)
IV Adam Ferguson: Political Opinion and Political Practice
83(24)
Part II: fldam Ferguson's Moral Philosophy
V The Possibility of Knowledge
107(31)
VI The Virtuous Man
138(49)
VII Virtue in Society
187(130)
Society in General: The Promise
187(13)
Societies in Particular: The Threat
200(25)
The Analysis of Social Development
225(33)
Reassessment of Promise and Threat
258(59)
Afterword 317(46)
Index 363

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