The Opinion of Mankind : Sociability and the Theory of the State from Hobbes to Smith /

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How David Hume and Adam Smith forged a new way of thinking about the modern state. What is the modern state? Conspicuously under theorized in recent political theory, this question persistently animated the best minds of the Enlightenment. Recovering David Hume and Adam Smith's long-underapprec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sagar, Paul (Lecturer in political theory)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Smith, Adam, > 1723-1790.
Hume, David, > 1711-1776.
Hobbes, Thomas, > 1588-1679.
State, The.
Political science.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
État.
Political science > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Sociability
  • Chapter 2 History and the family
  • Chapter 3 The state without sovereignty
  • Chaper 4 Rousseau's return to Hobbes
  • Chapter 5 Adam Smith's political theory of opinion
  • Chapter 6 Alternatives and applications.

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