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020			_a‎ 9780521447362
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100			_aFerguson, Adam
245			_aAn essay on the history of civil society
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c1996 _aCambridge :
300			_axxxv, 280 p. ; _c22 cm
365			_b1511.69 _c₹ _d01
490			_aCambridge texts in the history of political thought
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aAdam Ferguson (1723-1816) was one of the central figures in the Scottish Enlightenment. His Essay on the History of Civil Society (first published in 1767) is a bold and novel attempt to reclaim the tradition of active citizenship and apply it to the modern state. Drawing on such diverse sources as classical authors and contemporary travel literature, Ferguson offers a complex model of historical advance which challenges both Hume's and Smith's embrace of modernity and the primitivism of Rousseau. Ferguson combines a subtle analysis of the emergence of modern commercial society with a critique of its abandonment of civic and communal virtues. Central to Ferguson's theory of citizenship are the themes of conflict, play, political participation and military valour. His fascination with the theory of unintended consequences as a model of historical causality does not deter him from insisting on the irreplaceable value of individual, public-minded members of political society.
650			_aAdam Ferguson
650			_aCharlevoix
650			_aCommercial arts
650			_aCorruption
650			_aEffeminacy
650			_aFreedom
650			_aMankind
700			_aOz-Salzberger, Fania _eed.
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