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19 produkter
Problems and Promise of Commercial Society
Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau
Häftad, 2009
406 kr
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Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small, harmonious communities and as a sharp critic of the ills of commercial society. But, in fact, Smith had many of the same …
Infidel and the Professor
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
Inbunden, 2017
263 kr
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The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed …
Infidel and the Professor
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
Häftad, 2019
186 kr
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The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thoughtDavid Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as “the Great Infidel” for his religious skepticism and deemed unfit to teach …
Fears of a Setting Sun
The Disillusionment of America's Founders
Inbunden, 2021
271 kr
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The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had createdAmericans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican …
Fears of a Setting Sun
The Disillusionment of America''s Founders
E-bok, 2021
265 kr
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The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had created Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican …
Fears of a Setting Sun
The Disillusionment of America's Founders
Häftad, 2022
192 kr
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The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had createdAmericans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican …
Frederick Douglass's American Founding
How the Nation’s Fiercest Critic Embraced the Constitution
Inbunden, 2026
339 kr
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The remarkable story of how Frederick Douglass went from condemning the Constitution as a proslavery pact to celebrating it as a “glorious liberty document” that promises freedom to everyoneThe speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass contain some of the most probing examinations ever of the …
Frederick Douglass's American Founding
How the Nation's Fiercest Critic Embraced the Constitution
E-bok, 2026
324 kr
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The remarkable story of how Frederick Douglass went from condemning the Constitution as a proslavery pact to celebrating it as a ';glorious liberty document' that promises freedom to everyoneThe speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass contain some of the most probing examinations ever of the …
Frederick Douglass's American Founding
How the Nation's Fiercest Critic Embraced the Constitution
E-bok, 2026
324 kr
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The remarkable story of how Frederick Douglass went from condemning the Constitution as a proslavery pact to celebrating it as a ';glorious liberty document' that promises freedom to everyoneThe speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass contain some of the most probing examinations ever of the …
Constitution's Penman
Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter
Inbunden, 2023
653 kr
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Strikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution. Even fewer know that he was a peg-legged ladies’ man with a wicked sense of humor, a staunch opponent of slavery, and an unabashed elitist. Gouverneur Morris, who has been described as “the most colorful man in North America” at the time of …
Constitution's Penman
Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America''s Basic Charter
E-bok, 2023
436 kr
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Runner-Up: Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Strikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution. Even fewer know that he was a peg-legged ladies’ man with a wicked sense of humor, a staunch opponent of slavery, and an unabashed elitist. Gouverneur Morris, who has been …
Constitution's Penman
Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America's Basic Charter
Häftad, 2025
400 kr
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Strikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution. Even fewer know that he was a peg-legged ladies’ man with a wicked sense of humor, a staunch opponent of slavery, and an unabashed elitist. Gouverneur Morris, who has been described as “the most colorful man in North America” at the time of …
The Pragmatic Enlightenment
Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire
Inbunden, 2013
1168 kr
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This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls attention to the particular strand of the Enlightenment these thinkers represent, which he terms the …
The Pragmatic Enlightenment
Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire
Häftad, 2017
487 kr
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This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen calls attention to the particular strand of the Enlightenment these thinkers represent, which he terms the …
Infidel and the Professor
David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
E-bok, 2017
273 kr
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The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships—and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as “the Great Infidel” for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit …
Adam Smith and Rousseau
Ethics, Politics, Economics
Av Maria Pia Paganelli, Dennis C. Rasmussen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1530 kr
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Looks at all aspects of the pivotal intellectual relationship between two key figures of the EnlightenmentThis collection brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau scholars to explore the key shared concerns of these two great thinkers in …
Adam Smith and Rousseau
Ethics, Politics, Economics
Av Maria Pia Paganelli, Dennis C. Rasmussen m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
677 kr
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Looks at all aspects of the pivotal intellectual relationship between two key figures of the EnlightenmentJean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) and Adam Smith (1723–90) are two of the foremost thinkers of the European Enlightenment. They who made seminal contributions to moral and political philosophy …
Adam Smith and the Death of David Hume
The Letter to Strahan and Related Texts
Häftad, 2020
544 kr
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The Letter to Strahan is an ostensible letter that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David Hume, and published alongside Hume’s autobiography, My Own Life, in 1777. Other than his two books, it is the only work that Smith published under …
El infiel y el profesor
La historia de la amistad entre dos gigantes que transformaron el pensamiento moderno
E-bok, 2018
170 kr
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Uno de los libros del año en The Guardian. David Hume es considerado el filósofo inglés más importante que jamás haya existido. Sin embargo, en vida se le atacó por su escepticismo religioso, se le llamó el Gran Infiel y se le consideró inapto para instruir a los jóvenes. Adam Smith, en cambio, fue …
