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Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy
Fonna Forman-Barzilai
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Description for Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy
Hardcover. A broad-ranging 2010 study of Smith's views on moral judgement, humanitarian care, commerce, justice and international law. Series: Ideas in Context. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 630.
This 2010 text pursues Adam Smith's views on moral judgement, humanitarian care, commerce, justice and international law both in historical context and through a twenty-first-century cosmopolitan lens, making this a major contribution not only to Smith studies but also to the history of cosmopolitan thought and to contemporary cosmopolitan discourse itself. Forman-Barzilai breaks ground, demonstrating the spatial texture of Smith's moral psychology and the ways he believed that physical, affective and cultural distance constrain the identities, connections and ethical obligations of modern commercial people. Forman-Barzilai emphasizes his resistance to the sort of relativism, moral insularity and cultural chauvinism that too ... Read more
This 2010 text pursues Adam Smith's views on moral judgement, humanitarian care, commerce, justice and international law both in historical context and through a twenty-first-century cosmopolitan lens, making this a major contribution not only to Smith studies but also to the history of cosmopolitan thought and to contemporary cosmopolitan discourse itself. Forman-Barzilai breaks ground, demonstrating the spatial texture of Smith's moral psychology and the ways he believed that physical, affective and cultural distance constrain the identities, connections and ethical obligations of modern commercial people. Forman-Barzilai emphasizes his resistance to the sort of relativism, moral insularity and cultural chauvinism that too ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Series
Ideas in Context
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521761123
SKU
V9780521761123
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About Fonna Forman-Barzilai
Fonna Forman-Barzilai is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches political theory and the history of modern thought.
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