Politics in Commercial Society

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith

Business & Finance, Economics, Theory of Economics, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Political, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory
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Author: Istvan Hont ISBN: 9780674286191
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: June 9, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: Istvan Hont
ISBN: 9780674286191
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: June 9, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society but from different perspectives.

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Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society but from different perspectives.

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