Screen LibraryAdam Smith and modernity : 1723-2023 /
"This volume features 19 original essays on Adam Smith's conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great interpreter of modernity 250 years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations. The chapters in Part 1 focus on structural aspects of Smith...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2023. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge studies in eighteenth-century philosophy
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"This volume features 19 original essays on Adam Smith's conception of modernity. The contributions demonstrate the relevance of Smith as the great interpreter of modernity 250 years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations. The chapters in Part 1 focus on structural aspects of Smith's work. They cover topics such as Smith as theorist of spontaneous order, the systematic dimension of Smith's theoretical construction, and Smith's role as a historian of economic thought. Part 2 addresses Smith's conception of modern subjectivity between Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles-Lettres, Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations. Here the contributors consider the figure of the Smithian "merchant" and the importance of ridicule and satire for understanding modern civility, and comment on the role of sympathy, imagination and moral judgement in developing a sense of self, the condition of the modern man in society, and the virtue of self-command. Part 3 focuses on the crucial question of the relationship between ethics and economics discussing the link between efficiency, equity and justice, the nature of Smith's theory of value, and the ethical connotation of Smith's critique. Part 4 deals with topics inherent to the functional dynamics and development process of the Smithian "commercial society". These topics include law and authority, the relationship between work and freedom, the parable of the "poor man's son", and the economic and political consequences of the new secular orthodoxy. Finally, the chapters in Part 5 explore themes related to history and the Smithian idea of progress. They focus on the link between trade and progress of civilization, Smith's modern sociological vision of mass commercial societies, Smith's judgment on "savage" and premodern societies, and the controversial question of the immanentistic or providentialist perspective from which Smith considers both the social dynamics and the historical process. Adam Smith and Modernity will appea |
| Carrier Form: | xx, 361 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9781032293943 1032293942 9781032293950 1032293950 |
| Index Number: | HB103 |
| CLC: | F091.33 |
| Call Number: | F091.33/A196-1 |
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Adam Smith and spontaneous order / Systems, love of system and modernity / Adam Smith as a historian of economic thought / Adam Smith on self-command : utility, dignity, and sympathy / The joke is not funny anymore : irony, laughter and ridicule in Adam Smith / Smith and Hume on imagination and sympathy / Adam Smith and the creative role of imagination / Adam Smith on natural education and moral conscience / Adam Smith and a theory of just efficiency / The Ego-Alter-Tertius paradigm : Adam Smith's interaction model / Did Adam Smith hold a labour theory of value? : beaver and deer hunters in the early state / Endogenous ethics : Smith's real contribution to the Enlightenment / The poor man's son : deception in Adam Smith's case for free enterprise / Whose Adam Smith? : the limits of law's action / Work and freedom in Adam Smith : limits of historical experience / History without providence? : Adam Smith: historian and critic of modernity / Specialization and commercial modernity : Adam Smith as sociologist / Smith and the savages in the Wealth of Nations, or the anthropology of political economy / On the nature and causes of trade and the progress of civilization / |