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Author : Adam Ferguson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book The Unpublished Essays of Adam Ferguson written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Ferguson
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Download or read book The Unpublished Essays of Adam Ferguson written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Ferguson
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Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Unpublished Essays of Adam Ferguson written by Adam Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Winifred M. Philip
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
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Download or read book The Unpublished Essays of Adam Ferguson written by Winifred M. Philip and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iain McDaniel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674075285
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment written by Iain McDaniel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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’s Future sheds new light on Ferguson as a serious critic, rather than an advocate, of the Enlightenment belief in liberal progress. Unlike the philosophes who looked upon Europe’s growing prosperity and saw confirmation of a utopian future, Ferguson saw something else: a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. Ferguson viewed the intrinsic power struggle between civil and military authorities as the central dilemma of modern constitutional governments. He believed that the key to understanding the forces that propel nations toward tyranny lay in analysis of ancient Roman history. It was the alliance between popular and militaristic factions within the Roman republic, Ferguson believed, which ultimately precipitated its downfall. Democratic forces, intended as a means of liberation from tyranny, could all too easily become the engine of political oppression—a fear that proved prescient when the French Revolution spawned the expansionist wars of Napoleon. As Iain McDaniel makes clear, Ferguson’s skepticism about the ability of constitutional states to weather pervasive conditions of warfare and emergency has particular relevance for twenty-first-century geopolitics. This revelatory study will resonate with debates over the troubling tendency of powerful democracies to curtail civil liberties and pursue imperial ambitions.
Author : Vincenzo Merolle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040248039
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson Vol 1 written by Vincenzo Merolle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pickering edition of Adam Ferguson's correspondence contains over 400 letters, most of which have never before been published. The correspondence includes letters between Ferguson and Adam Smith, David Hume and Alexander Carlyle and many other central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Author : Vincenzo Merolle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040250254
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson Vol 2 written by Vincenzo Merolle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pickering edition of Adam Ferguson's correspondence contains over 400 letters, most of which have never before been published. The correspondence includes letters between Ferguson and Adam Smith, David Hume and Alexander Carlyle and many other central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Author : Eugene Heath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317315367
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature written by Eugene Heath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action.
Author : Robin C Dix
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000161692
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Manuscripts of Adam Ferguson written by Robin C Dix and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-26 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.
Author : David Kettler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351534068
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson written by David Kettler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thought of Adam Ferguson generated great excitement among many of his philosophic contemporaries in the late eighteenth century, and it continues to inspire the modern reader. This major study by David Kettler is an ideal introduction to Ferguson's life and thought. The new introduction to this first paperback edition discusses Ferguson's work in relation to his better-known contemporaries David Hume and Adam Smith, while the afterword offers an in-depth reconsideration of Ferguson's most renowned work, An Essay on the History of Civil Society, with emphasis on present-day disputes about the concept of civil society. Ferguson welcomed the advent of critical and analytical philosophy as an ally against superstitious credulity and confused obscurantism, but he was afraid that it might also dissolve into incomprehensible technical complexity and ethical relativism. He was attracted by the manifest practical accomplishments of modern science, as well as by its masterful ordering of natural phenomena into a unified theoretical structure, but he feared that its adherents would debase the notion of man to that of a machine at the mercy of mechanical forces. Ferguson thought well of ambition, but he also believed that a frenzy of ambition and frustration might tear at man's self-respect and peace of mind. The decisive phenomenon manifested by Ferguson's writing is the emergence of an intellectual's point of view toward the conditions of modern society. Many of the questions that he posed have been restated in more profound ways, some of the questions and most of the answers have been eliminated or transformed beyond recognition; and all of the issues he raises are now expressed by others in harsh, new words. But, however formulated, Ferguson's concerns clearly foreshadow the problems of over-rationalization, dehumanization, atomization, alienation, and bureaucratization that have been repeatedly canvassed by intellectuals in our time.
Author : Lisa Hill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9781402038891
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (388 download)
Download or read book The Passionate Society written by Lisa Hill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment whose thought was, in many respects, original and distinctive. This book is a study of his ideas and of the intellectual forces that shaped them. Though somewhat overlooked in the nineteenth century, Ferguson was rescued from obscurity in the first half of the twentieth century by scholars interested in the origins of sociology and early critiques of modernity. Ferguson’s interest in the mechanics of social life and especially social change led him to many groundbreaking insights. In fact, he is sometimes identified as the 'Father of Modern Sociology'. In addition to exploring whether or not he merits this title, this study examines the whole of Ferguson’s thought as a system and includes his moral and faculty psychology, historiography, theology, politics and social science. Ferguson is distinguished by his deep appreciation of the complexity of the human condition; his study of society is based on the belief that it is not only reason, but the unseen, unplanned, sub-rational and visceral forces that keep the human universe in motion. Ferguson’s appreciation of this fact, and his ability to make social science of it, is his major achievement.
Author : Eugene Heath
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845404424
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson written by Eugene Heath and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A philosopher and historian, Adam Ferguson occupies a unique place within eighteenth-century Scottish thought. Distinguished by a moral and historical bent, his work is framed within a teleological outlook that upholds the importance of action and virtue.
Author : Craig Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474413285
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society written by Craig Smith and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Ferguson, a friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, was among the leading Scottish Enlightenment figures who worked to develop a science of man. He created a methodology for moral science that combined empirically based social theory with normative moralising. He was among the first in the English-speaking world to make use of the terms civilization, civil society and political science. Craig Smith explores Ferguson's thought, and examines his attempt to develop a genuine moral science and its place in providing a secure basis for the virtuous education of the new elite of Hanoverian Britain. The Ferguson that emerges is far from the stereotyped image of a republican sceptical about commercial society and much closer to the mainstream of the Scottish Enlightenment and its defence of the new British commercial order.
Author : Silvia Sebastiani
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137069791
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Scottish Enlightenment written by Silvia Sebastiani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a conception, however, presents problematic questions: why were the Americans still savage? Why was it that the Europeans only had completed all the stages of the historic process? Could modern societies escape the destiny of earlier empires and avoid decadence? Was there a limit beyond which women's influence might result in dehumanization? The Scottish Enlightenment's legacy for modernity emerges here as a two-faced Janus, an unresolved tension between universalism and hierarchy, progress and the limits of progress.
Author : Iain McDaniel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674075269
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment written by Iain McDaniel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike his contemporaries, who saw Europe’s prosperity as confirmation of a utopian future, the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher Adam Ferguson saw a reminder of Rome’s lesson that egalitarian democracy could become a self-undermining path to dictatorship. This is a major reassessment of a critic overshadowed today by David Hume and Adam Smith.
Author : John Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009289381
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Time, History, and Political Thought written by John Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the cliché that 'a week is a long time in politics' and the aspiration of many political philosophers to give their ideas universal, timeless validity lies a gulf which the history of political thought is uniquely qualified to bridge. For that history shows that no conception of politics has dispensed altogether with time, and many have explicitly sought legitimacy in association with forms of history. Ranging from Justinian's law codes to rival Protestant and Catholic visions of political community after the Fall, from Hobbes and Spinoza to the Scottish Enlightenment, and from Kant and Savigny to the legacy of German Historicism and the Algerian Revolution, this volume explores multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity. Bringing together leading contemporary historians of political thought, Time, History, and Political Thought demonstrates just how much both time and history have enriched the political imagination.
Author : Eugene Heath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317315332
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Adam Ferguson: Philosophy, Politics and Society written by Eugene Heath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains a set of essays that analyse Ferguson's philosophical, political and sociological writings and the discourse which they prompted between Ferguson and other important figures.
