Politics in commercial society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith / Istvan Hont ; edited by Bela...
Politics in commercial society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith / Istvan Hont ; edited by Bela...
Politics in commercial society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith / Istvan Hont ; edited by Bela Kapossy and Michael Sonenscher.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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G 2016/145
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English
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xxi, 138 pages ; 25 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Commercial sociability : the Jean-Jacques Rousseau problem -- Commercial sociability : the Adam Smith problem -- Histories of government : which comes first, judges or the law? -- Histories of government : republics, inequality, and revolution? -- Political economy : markets, households, and invisib...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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Massachusetts
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2015.
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Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity, Smith as an apologist. Istvan Hont, however, finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society and from surprisingly similar p...
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Politics in commercial society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith / Istvan Hont ; edited by Bela Kapossy and Michael Sonenscher.
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Text of the six Carlyle Lectures on the thought of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that Hont gave at Oxford University in the Hilary Term of 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2016/145
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74VKzKV3jxyg
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0674967704 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780674967700 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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330.01
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991023405419702626
