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Politics in Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith

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Description for Politics in Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 159 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD1; HPS; JPA; KCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.

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 perspectives.

In making his case, Hont begins with the concept of commercial society and explains why that concept has much in common with what the German philosopher Immanuel Kant called unsocial sociability. This is why many earlier scholars used to refer to an Adam Smith Problem and, in a ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
373g
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674967700
SKU
V9780674967700
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About Istvan Hont
Istvan Hont was a Reader in the History of Political Thought at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King’s College. Béla Kapossy is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Lausanne. Michael Sonenscher is a Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge.

Reviews for Politics in Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith
Istvan Hont [was] a terrifically gifted historian of political and economic thought… Politics in Commercial Society…outlines in capsule form his reconstruction of [Rousseau and Adam Smith], showing not only what they have in common but also how little modern political theory has advanced beyond their concerns… Eighteenth-century political theory, as Hont’s iconoclastic work shows, still has much to teach us. ... Read more

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