The pragmatic enlightenment : recovering the liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire /

This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls attention to the particular strand of the Enlightenment these thinkers represent, which he terms the 'p...

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Main Author: Rasmussen, Dennis C. (Dennis Carl), 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013
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