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A critically introduced and edited collection of new letters and an essay by the philosopher Adam FergusonIncludes 36 new letters and one essay published for the first time and contextualised within Ferguson's oeuvreHelps to fill in large gaps in Ferguson's biographyPresents new angles on major areas of study including the East India Company, the Regency Crisis, Scottish reactions to the French Revolution, and contemporary perceptions of Adam Smith's Political Economy, among othersReveals the political influence that the Moderates of the Scottish Enlightenment, such as Ferguson, Hugh Blair (1718-1800), and Alexander Carlyle (1722-1805), attempted to exert on British foreign policy in the late 1790sThis volume will publish for the first time thirty-six, until now, unpublished letters, as well as a new essay on the French Revolution, by the moral philosopher, historian and man-of-letters Adam Ferguson (1723-1816). A major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson has been one of the principal beneficiaries of the refocus of scholarly attention beyond the towering figures of David Hume (1711-1776) and Adam Smith (1723-1790) and toward their larger intellectual network. Penned during the last decades of his life, they were all addressed to his close friend Sir John Macpherson. They concern major topics of the day such as Enlightenment, Empire, and the French Revolution, as well as various illuminating details about Ferguson's final decades. They add considerably to our knowledge of the late Scottish Enlightenment. Located in a recent acquisition at the British Library, these previously unnoticed letters add considerably to our knowledge of Ferguson, his ideas - philosophical, historical, and political - and his intellectual milieu from 1784 to 1815. A substantial introductory essay presents the main findings, while critical apparatus will assist specialists and students alike in understanding this key Enlightenment thinker
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monografia Rebiun36890658 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36890658 m o d | cr#||||||||||| 240312s2023 stk ob 101 0 eng d 9781474480239 1474480233 9781474480246 1474480241 10.1515/9781474480246 doi UAM 991008385769904211 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ eng e-uk-st e-fr--- stk GB-SCT PHI005000 bisacsh 170 23 170 Adam Ferguson's later writings new letters and an essay on the French Revolution edited by Ian Stewart and Max Skjönsberg First edition Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2023] Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2023 1 online resource (264 p.) 1 online resource (264 p.) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy Series Includes bibliographical references and index Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Series Editor's Introduction -- Editorial Conventions -- Editorial Introduction -- New Letters of Adam Ferguson -- 'Copy Dr Ferguson's opinions / Public affairs / no Date French Revolution' -- Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published by Dr. Price, Intitled, Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America, & -- c. (1776) -- Minutes of the Life and Character of Joseph Black, M.D. (1801) -- Biographical Sketch: Or, Memoir of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Ferguson (1817) -- Appendix A: Further Correspondence in MSS EUR F/291/97 -- Appendix B: The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson and Sir John Macpherson -- Appendix C: Further Miscellaneous Anecdotes about Ferguson from Hugh Cleghorn -- Bibliography -- Index A critically introduced and edited collection of new letters and an essay by the philosopher Adam FergusonIncludes 36 new letters and one essay published for the first time and contextualised within Ferguson's oeuvreHelps to fill in large gaps in Ferguson's biographyPresents new angles on major areas of study including the East India Company, the Regency Crisis, Scottish reactions to the French Revolution, and contemporary perceptions of Adam Smith's Political Economy, among othersReveals the political influence that the Moderates of the Scottish Enlightenment, such as Ferguson, Hugh Blair (1718-1800), and Alexander Carlyle (1722-1805), attempted to exert on British foreign policy in the late 1790sThis volume will publish for the first time thirty-six, until now, unpublished letters, as well as a new essay on the French Revolution, by the moral philosopher, historian and man-of-letters Adam Ferguson (1723-1816). A major figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson has been one of the principal beneficiaries of the refocus of scholarly attention beyond the towering figures of David Hume (1711-1776) and Adam Smith (1723-1790) and toward their larger intellectual network. Penned during the last decades of his life, they were all addressed to his close friend Sir John Macpherson. They concern major topics of the day such as Enlightenment, Empire, and the French Revolution, as well as various illuminating details about Ferguson's final decades. They add considerably to our knowledge of the late Scottish Enlightenment. Located in a recent acquisition at the British Library, these previously unnoticed letters add considerably to our knowledge of Ferguson, his ideas - philosophical, historical, and political - and his intellectual milieu from 1784 to 1815. A substantial introductory essay presents the main findings, while critical apparatus will assist specialists and students alike in understanding this key Enlightenment thinker In English Ferguson, Adam 1723-1816). Correspondence Enlightenment- Scotland France- History- Revolution, 1789-1799 Stewart, Ian Dr editor Skjönsberg, Max 1987-) editor 9781474480215 1474480217 Edinburgh studies in Scottish philosophy