eBooks - Politics & Government - Economics - Vivienne Brown - Adam Smith's Discourse
Adam Smith's Discourse eBooks
by Vivienne Brown
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Adam Smith's Discourse Summary
| This book develops the existing analyses of the founder of free market economics, and gives it a radical new extension by taking into account recent debates in literary theory. |
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Adam Smith's name has become synonymous with free market economics. Recent scholarship has given us a richer, more nuanced figure, steeped in the intricacies of enlightenment social and political philosophy. "Adam Smith's Discourse" develops this literature and gives it a radical new dimension. The first book on Adam Smith to deal with recent debates in literary theory, this interdisciplinary work examines Smith's major texts and places them within the context of enlightenment thought. It considers Smith's major writings--the "Lectures on" "Jurisprudence" and "On Rhetoric and Belles Letters" as well as "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "The Wealth of Nations"--and places each within its own discursive context and with reference to its stylistic and rhetorical features. "Adam Smith's Discourse" debunks the view of Smith as a dogmatic free-marketeer. In its place, the book offers a portrait of a more skeptical, philosophical andpolitically focused figure. It shows that Smith's enthusiasm for the transition to a society based on trade and manufacturing was tinged with a more dispassionate recognition of the losses as well as the benefits derived from commercial society. |
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