Politics In Commercial Society: Jean-Jacques Rousseau And Adam Smith

Scholars normally emphasize the contrast between the two great eighteenth-century thinkers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith. Rousseau is seen as a critic of modernity; Smith as an apologist. However, Istvan Hont finds significant commonalities in their work, arguing that both were theorists of commercial society but from different perspectives.

• | Author: Istvan Hont
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 09, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674967704
• | ISBN-13: 9780674967700