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Adam Smith's Politics: An Essay in Historiographic Revision

Door Donald Winch

Categorie	Politiek & Staatsinrichting
Boeknummer	#351478-ZB14
Titel	Adam Smith's Politics: An Essay in Historiographic Revision
Auteur	Winch, Donald
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1978
ISBN10	0521292883
ISBN13	9780521292887
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo. Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics.
Samenvatting	This essay in interpretation seeks to provide a more historical reading of certain political themes which recur in Smith's writings. For most of the two hundred years or so that have passed since the publication of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith's writings on political and economic questions have been viewed within a liberal capitalist perspective of nineteenth- and twentieth- century provenance. This essay in interpretation seeks to provide a more historical reading of certain political themes which recur in Smith's writings by bringing eighteenth-century perspectives to bear on the problem. Contrary to the view that sees Smith's work as marking the point at which 'politics' was being eclipsed by 'economics', it claims that Smith has a 'politics' which goes beyond certain political at... (Lees verder)titudes connected with the role of the state in economic affairs. It argues that he employs a consistent mode of political analysis which cannot be encompassed within the standard liberal capitalist categories, but can be understood by reference to the language and qualities of contemporary political debate, and of the eighteenth-century science of politics cultivated by Montesquieu and, above all, Hume, particularly as revealed by recent scholarship. A concluding chapter draws the various strands of the interpretation together to form a portrait of what Smith might legitimately be said to have been doing when he wrote on these matters.
Pagina's	206
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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