History and Theory in Ferguson's Essay On the History of Civil Society
A Reconsideration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6349975 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Kettler (Trent University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 437-460 |
| Publication date | 1977-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/009059177700500402 |
| OpenAlex | W1983576323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
as you have stated the Question, 'tis not about what was First, or Foremost; but what is Instant, and Now in being.... You go (if I may say so) upon Fact, and would prove that things actually are in such a state and condition, which if they really were, there would indeed by no dispute left. [ Shaftesbury, The Moralist]. As for the Performance itself, it is but an Essay. [ Edward Ward
Civil society · Epistemology · Instant · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy
Republicanism
The Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish Social Thought c.1725–1915
Scepticism, priestcraft, and toleration
From the Crisis of Civil Culture to the Neapolitan Republic of 1647
Civic Humanism and Republican Citizenship in the Polish Renaissance
Rights or Virtues
Cameralism and the sciences of the state
Political languages of the French Revolution
Encyclopedias and the diffusion of knowledge
Citizenship and Republicanism in Elizabethan England
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought
Social contract theory and its critics
The Idea of a Republican Constitution in Old Régime France
Aristotelians, Monarchomachs and Republicans
Republicanism
The comparative study of regimes and societies
Liberalism and republicanism, or wealth and virtue revisited
Adam Ferguson's Discourse on ‘Rude Nations’ in the Essay and the Critique of Despotic Empire
Adam Ferguson on Partisanship, Party Conflict, and Popular Participation
Ethics and Economics
Commerce, Virtue, and Politics
Putting Adam Ferguson in his place1
Political Science and the Enlightenment of Enthusiasm
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.53 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 2023 (41) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |