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Adam Ferguson's Later Writings

New Letters and an Essay on the French Revolution

Ian Stewart, Max Skj nsberg (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
264 Seiten
2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8021-5 (ISBN)
CHF 148,35 inkl. MwSt
A critically introduced and edited collection of new letters and an essay by the philosopher Adam Ferguson

Includes 36 new letters and one essay published for the first time and contextualised within Ferguson's oeuvre
Helps to fill in large gaps in Ferguson's biography
Presents new angles on major areas of study including the East India Company, the Regency Crisis, Scottish reactions to the French Revolution, and contemporary perceptions of Adam Smith's Political Economy, among others
Reveals the political influence that the Moderates of the Scottish Enlightenment, such as Ferguson, Hugh Blair (1718-1800), and Alexander Carlyle (1722-1805), attempted to exert on British foreign policy in the late 1790s

This volume will publish for the first time thirty-six, until now, unpublished letters, as well as a new essay on the French Revolution, by the moral philosopher, historian and man-of-letters Adam Ferguson (1723-1816). A major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson has been one of the principal beneficiaries of the refocus of scholarly attention beyond the towering figures of David Hume (1711-1776) and Adam Smith (1723-1790) and toward their larger intellectual network. Penned during the last decades of his life, they were all addressed to his close friend Sir John Macpherson. They concern major topics of the day such as Enlightenment, Empire, and the French Revolution, as well as various illuminating details about Ferguson's final decades. They add considerably to our knowledge of the late Scottish Enlightenment.

Located in a recent acquisition at the British Library, these previously unnoticed letters add considerably to our knowledge of Ferguson, his ideas - philosophical, historical, and political - and his intellectual milieu from 1784 to 1815. A substantial introductory essay presents the main findings, while critical apparatus will assist specialists and students alike in understanding this key Enlightenment thinker.

Ian Stewart is an Associate Lecturer in European Intellectual History at University College London.Max Skj nsberg is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a College Research Associate at Emmanuel College.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
ISBN-10 1-4744-8021-7 / 1474480217
ISBN-13 978-1-4744-8021-5 / 9781474480215
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