Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature (The Enlightenment World)

Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature (The Enlightenment World)

by EugeneHeath (Editor), VincenzoMerolle (Editor)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 253
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Published: 01 Nov 2007

ISBN 10: 1851968644
ISBN 13: 9781851968640

Media Reviews
'The essays in this new collection are of a uniformly high quality, written by some of the very best contemporary students of Ferguson.' Journal of Scottish Philosophy 'The editors have done an admirable job in providing Scottish Enlightenment scholars with much valuable material on Ferguson's life and work.' Eighteenth-Century Scotland 'supplies us with a number of fresh insights into the complex mind of the Edinburgh-based Scottish thinker' The European Legacy