Adam Ferguson in the Scottish enlightenment : the Roman past and Europe's future /
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�...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
