Other Adam Smith : Popular Contention, Commercial Society, and the Birth of Necro-Economics

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Mike.

Contributor:

Montag, Warren.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Smith, Adam, -- 1723-1790.

Local Subjects:

Philosophy, Modern.

Smith, Adam, -- 1723-1790.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (412 p.)

Place of Publication:

Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Other Adam Smith represents the next wave of critical thinking about the still under-examined work of this paradigmatic Enlightenment thinker. Not simply another book about Adam Smith, it allows and even necessitates his inclusion in the realm of theory in the broadest sense. Moving beyond his usual economic and moral philosophical texts, Mike Hill and Warren Montag take seriously Smith's entire corpus, his writing on knowledge, affect, sociability and government, and political economy, as constituting a comprehensive-though highly contestable-system of thought. We meet not just Smith the

Contents:

Front matter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Short Forms

Introduction: “A Tendency to Absence”: Which Other Adam Smith?

1. “The Pleasing Wonder of Ignorance”: Adam Smith’s Divisions of Knowledge

2. “Tumultuous Combinations”: The Transindividual from Adam Smith to Spinoza

3. “Numbers, Noise, and Power”: Insurrection as a Problem of Historical Method

4. “Immunity, the Necessary Complement of Liberty”: The Birth of Necro-Economics

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804793001

080479300X

OCLC:

1198929627