Politics in Commercial Society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith /
Hont, Istvan
Politics in Commercial Society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith / Istvan Hont; ed. by Michael Sonenscher, Béla Kapossy. - Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only - 1 online resource (144 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors’ Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- 1 Commercial Sociability: The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem -- 2 Commercial Sociability: The Adam Smith Problem -- 3 Histories of Government: Which Comes First, Judges or the Law? -- 4 Histories of Government: Republics, Inequality, and Revolution? -- 5 Political Economy: Markets, Households, and Invisible Hands -- 6 Political Economy: Nationalism, Emulation, and War -- Index
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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. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society but from different perspectives.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674286177
10.4159/9780674286177 doi
Commerce--Philosophy.
Economics--Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
330.01
Politics in Commercial Society : Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith / Istvan Hont; ed. by Michael Sonenscher, Béla Kapossy. - Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only - 1 online resource (144 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Editors’ Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- 1 Commercial Sociability: The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Problem -- 2 Commercial Sociability: The Adam Smith Problem -- 3 Histories of Government: Which Comes First, Judges or the Law? -- 4 Histories of Government: Republics, Inequality, and Revolution? -- 5 Political Economy: Markets, Households, and Invisible Hands -- 6 Political Economy: Nationalism, Emulation, and War -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society but from different perspectives.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674286177
10.4159/9780674286177 doi
Commerce--Philosophy.
Economics--Political aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
330.01