Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society Paperback / softback
by Adam Ferguson
Edited by Fania (University of Haifa, Israel) Oz-Salzberger
Part of the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series
Paperback / softback
Description
Adam Ferguson's Essay on the History of Civil Society (first published in 1767) is a classic of the Scottish - and European - Enlightenment.
Drawing on such diverse sources as classical authors and contemporary travel literature, Ferguson offers a complex model of historical advance which challenges both Hume's and Smith's embrace of modernity and the primitivism of Rousseau.
Ferguson combines a subtle analysis of the emergence of modern commercial society with a critique of its abandonment of civic and communal virtues.
Central to Ferguson's theory of citizenship are the themes of conflict, play, political participation and military valour.
The Essay is a bold and novel attempt to reclaim the tradition of active, virtuous citizenship and apply it to the modern state.
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- Pages:322 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/1996
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- ISBN:9780521447362
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:322 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/02/1996
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521447362
