The Cambridge companion to Adam Smith / edited by Knud Haakonssen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haakonssen, Knud, 1947-

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Adam, 1723-1790.

Smith, Adam.

Physical Description:

xiv, 409 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith's system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse, in fact, also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This Cambridge Companion volume provides an up-to-date examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Collectively, the essays take into account Smith's multiple contexts - Scottish, British, European, Atlantic; biographical, institutional, political, philosophical - and they draw on all his works, including student notes from his lectures. Pluralistic in approach, the volume provides a contextualist history of Smith, as well as direct philosphical engagement with his ideas.

Contents:

Imagination : morals, science, arts / Charles L. Griswold, Jr.

Adam Smith, belletrist / Mark Salber Phillips

Adam Smith's theory of language / Marcelo Dascal

Smith and science / Christopher J. Berry

Smith on ingenuity, pleasure, and the imitative arts / Neil de Marchi

Sympathy and the impartial spectator / Alexander Broadie

Virtues, utility, and rules / Robert Shaver

Adam Smith on justice, rights, and law / David Lieberman

Self-interest and other interests / Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Adam Smith and history / J.G.A. Pocock

Adam Smith's politics / Douglas Long

Adam Smith's economics / Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen

The legacy of Adam Smith / Knud Haakonssen and Donald Winch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-399) and index.

ISBN:

0521770599

0521779243

OCLC:

60321422

Publisher Number:

9780521770590

9780521779241