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Auteur(s) : Phillipson, Nicholas (1937-....)
Titre(s) : Adam Smith [Texte imprimé] : an enlightened life / Nicholas Phillipson
Publication : New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press, cop. 2010
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiv, 345 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), maps, ports. ; 24 cm
Comprend : A Kirkcaldy upbringing ; Glasgow, Glasgow University and Francis Hutcheson's enlightenment
; Private study 1740-46 : Oxford and David Hume ; Edinburgh's early enlightenment
; Smith's Edinburgh lectures : a conjectural history ; Professor of moral philosophy
at Glasgow, I. 1751-9 ; The 'Theory of moral sentiments' and the civilizing powers
of commerce ; Professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow, 2. 1759-63 ; Smith and the
Duke of Buccleuch in Europe 1764-6 ; London, Kirkcaldy and the making of the 'Wealth
of nations' 1766-76 ; The 'Wealth of nations' and Smith's "very violent attack ...
upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain" ; Hume's death ; Last years in
Edinburgh 1778-90.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-322) and index
Nicholas Phillipson's intellectual biography of Adam Smith shows that Smith saw himself
as philosopher rather than an economist. Phillipson shows Smith's famous works were
a part of a larger scheme to establish a "Science of Man," which was to encompass
law, history, and aesthetics as well as economics and ethics. Phillipson explains
Adam Smith's part in the rapidly changing intellectual and commercial cultures of
Glasgow and Edinburgh at the time of the Scottish Enlightenment. Above all Phillipson
explains how far Smith's ideas developed in dialog with his closest friend David Hume.
--Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Smith, Adam (1723-1790)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300169270 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0300169272 (alk. paper) (hardcover)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42328411c
Notice n° :
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