Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature
History, Progress and Human Nature
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2007
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-85196-864-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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 LegacyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85196-864-0 (9781851968640)
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Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature
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Eugene Heath | Vincenzo Merolle
Adam Ferguson: History, Progress and Human Nature
E-Book
09/2015
1st Edition
Routledge
€69.99
Available for download
Persons
Eugene Heath, Vincenzo Merolle
Content
Introduction, Eugene Heath, Vincenzo Merolle; Part I Life and Works; Chapter 1 Ferguson's Epistolary Self, John D. Brewer; Chapter 2 Ferguson and Scottish History: Past and Present in an Essay on the History of Civil Society, David Allan; Chapter 3 Ferguson'S Use of the Edinburgh University Library: 1764-1806, Jane B. Fagg; Part II In History; Chapter 4 Ferguson's Reflections Previous to the Establishment of a Militia, David Raynor; Chapter 5 Ferguson's Views on the American and French Revolutions, Yasuo Amoh; Chapter 6 Political Education for Empire and Revolution, David Kettler; Part III On History; Chapter 7 Ferguson, Roman History and the Threat of Military Government in Modern Europe, Iain McDaniel; Chapter 8 Ferguson's 'Appropriate Stile' in Combining History and Science: The History of Historiography Revisited, Annette Meyer; Part IV Human Nature, Action and Progress; Chapter 9 Ferguson's Politics of Action, Fania Oz-Salzberger; Chapter 10 Ferguson and the Active Genius of Mankind, Craig Smith; Chapter 11 Providence and Progress: The Religious Dimension in Ferguson's Discussion of Civil Society, Jeng-Guo S. Chen;