Adam Smith and Rousseau

Maria Pia Paganelli is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook on Adam Smith (OUP, 2013) along with Christopher Berry and Craig Smith. She has written extensively in journals on David Hume and Adam Smith. Dennis C. Rasmussen is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tufts University. He is the author of The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire (Cambridge University Press, 2014), The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith’s Response to Rousseau (Penn State University Press, 2008). Craig Smith is Professor of the History of Political Thought in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Glasgow.

This volume is nicely done … Smith and Rousseau studies are both in robust health right now, but with only a few scholars who are capable of writing well about both philosophers. This volume will assist with the on-going work of cross-fertilisation, and make it much easier in future for more to follow suit.

• Part I: Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques RousseauIntroductionMaria Pia Paganelli, Dennis C. Rasmussen and Craig SmithOn the Place of Politics in Commercial SocietyRyan Patrick HanleyRousseau and the Scottish Enlightenment: Connections and DisconnectionsMark HulliungPart II: Self-interest and SympathyThe Role of Interpersonal Comparisons in Moral Learning and the Sources of Recognition Respect: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s amour-propre and Adam Smith’s sympathyChristel FrickeActors and Spectators: Rousseau's response to eighteenth-century debates on self-interestMark HillPursuing Sympathy without Vanity: Interpreting Smith’s Critique of Rousseau through Smith’s Critique of MandevilleJohn McHughPart III: Moral Sentiments and SpectatorshipAdam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Vices of the MarketplaceMichael SchleeterJulie’s Garden and the Impartial Spectator: an examination of Smithean themes in Rousseau’s La Nouvelle HéloïseTabitha BakerSentimental Conviction: Rousseau’s Apologia and the Impartial SpectatorAdam SchoenePart IV: Commercial Society and JusticeBeing and Appearing: self-falsification, exchange and freedom in Rousseau and Adam SmithCharles L. GriswoldCitizens, Markets and Social Order: An Aristotelian Reading of Smith and Rousseau on JusticeJimena HurtadoPart V: Politics and FreedomSmith, Rousseau and the True Spirit of a RepublicanDennis C. RasmussenLeft to Their Own Devices: Smith and Rousseau on Public Opinion and the Role of the StateJason NeidlemanRousseau and Smith: Sympathy, Justice and CosmopoliticsNeil SaccamanoNotes on ContributorsIndex