Adam Smith: An Enlightened LifeNicholas 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. |
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Contents
| 1699 | |
| 1703 | |
| 1707 | |
| 1717 | |
| 1737 | |
Oxfordand David Hume | |
4Edinburghs Early Enlightenment | |
a Conjectural History | |
9Smith and the Duke of Buccleuchin Europe 17646 | |
10London Kirkcaldy and the Making of theWealth of Nations 176676 | |
11The Wealth of Nations andSmiths Very violent attack upon the whole commercialsystem of Great Britain | |
12Humes Death | |
13Last Years in Edinburgh 177890 | |
Epilogue | |
Notes and Sources | |
Bibliography of Works Cited | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Series |
| Author | Nicholas Phillipson |
| Publisher | Yale University Press, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0300174438, 9780300174434 |
| Length | 311 pages |
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