Christopher J. Berry

Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

A carefully curated selection of new and classic essays by Scottish Enlightenment expert Christopher J. Berry

This collection of essays by Christopher J. Berry spans several decades and multiple shifts across Scottish Enlightenment, Hume and Smith studies. It brings together classic essays - some of which are difficult to find - with 3 new pieces, which cumulatively constitute a distinct interpretation. Clustered around the themes of sociability, the Humean science of man and the Smithian engagement with commerce and morality, these collected works will be of considerable value to those working in political philosophy, the history of ideas and the history of economic and social theory.

Also included is a substantial introduction which, alongside Berry's personal intellectual history, provides a commentary on the development of the study of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Key Features

• Christopher J. Berry is a leading expert in Scottish Enlightenment scholarship
• Clustered around the themes of sociability, the Humean science of man and the Smithian engagement with commerce and morality
• Will be of considerable value to those working in political philosophy, the history of ideas and the history of economic and social theory
• Includes a substantial introduction which, alongside Berry's personal intellectual history, provides a commentary on the development of the study of the Scottish Enlightenment

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474415033
• Artikelnr.: 56935567

Autorenporträt

Chris Berry is Professor Emeritus of Political Theory at the University of Glasgow, which he joined from 1970, from the LSE where he completed his doctorate. He is best known for his work on the Scottish Enlightenment and on the idea of luxury. He has given invited keynote lectures on these themes in China, Japan, Chile, the US and in Europe. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. The Study of the Scottish Enlightenment: an Autobiographical Journey
Part I: Scottish Enlightenment
Introduction to Part I
2. James Dunbar and Ideas of Sociality and Language in Eighteenth Century
Scotland
3. James Dunbar and the Enlightenment Debate on Language
4."Climate" in the Eighteenth Century: James Dunbar and the Scottish Case
5. Sociality and Socialisation
6. Rude Religion: The Psychology of Polytheism in the Scottish
Enlightenment
7. 'But art itself is Natural to Man': Ferguson and the Principle of
Simultaneity
8. Finding Space for Civil Society
Part II: David Hume
Introduction to Part II
9. Hume on Rationality in History and Social Life
10. Lusty Women and Loose Imagination: Hume's Philosophical Anthropology of
Chastity
11. Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge and Commerce
12. Hume's Universalism: The Science of Man and the Anthropological Point
of View
13. Hume and Superfluous Value (or the problem with Epictetus' Slippers)
14. Science and Superstition: Hume and Conservatism
15. Hume on Happiness
Part III: Adam Smith
Introduction to Part III
16. Adam Smith's 'Considerations' on Language
17. Smith and Science
18. Adam Smith: Commerce, Liberty and Modernity
19. Adam Smith and the Virtues of a Modern Economy
20. Adam Smith's Science of Human Nature
21. Adam Smith on Liberty 'in our present sense of the word'