Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

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ID20022211
AuthorsChristopher J Berry (0000-0002-3512-3604, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages472
Publication date2018-06-30
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueEssays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/edinburgh/9781474415019.001.0001
OpenAlexW2912658666
Open LibraryOL28928094M
ISBN9781474415019
LanguageEN
Citations received7

A collection of essays by a leading scholar. The work selected spans several decades, which together with three new unpublished pieces, cumulatively constitute a distinct interpretation of the Scottish Enlightenment as a whole while incorporating detailed examination of the work of David Hume and Adam Smith. There is, in addition, a substantial introduction which, alongside Berry’s personal intellectual history, provides a commentary on the development of the study of the Scottish Enlightenment from the 1960s. Each of the previously published chapters includes a postscript where Berry comments on subsequent work and his own retrospective assessment. The recurrent themes are the ideas of sociability and socialisation, the Humean science of man and Smith’s analysis of the relation between commerce and morality

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