Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment

by Charles L. Griswold Jr.

Book Overview

Although Adam Smith is often thought of today as an economist, he was in fact (as his great contemporaries Hume, Burke, Kant, and Hegel recognized) an original and insightful thinker whose work covers an immense territory including moral philosophy, political economy, rhetorical theory, aesthetics, and jurisprudence. Charles Griswold has written the first comprehensive philosophical study of Smith's moral and political thought. Griswold sets Smith's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521628911
• ISBN13: 9780521628914
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"