Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter

ISBN-13: 9780367884994 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 276 str.

Charles L. Griswold

Opis

In this outstanding book Charles Griswold analyses, compares and evaluates some of the key ways in which Rousseau and Smith address what could be termed "the question of the self". Essential reading for students and scholars of these two figures, eighteenth century philosophy, the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, the history of ideas.

Spis treści

Prologue  1. Narcissism, self-knowledge, and social critique: from Rousseau’s Preface to Narcissus to Adam Smith  2. Genealogical narrative, self-knowledge, and the scope of philosophy  3. Sociability, pitié and sympathy  4. "To be" and "to appear": self-falsification, exchange, and freedom  5. Liberty, civil religion, and "sentiments of sociability"  Epilogue  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Charles L. Griswold is Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, USA. He is the author of Self-knowledge in Plato’s Phaedrus, Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment and Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration, editor of Platonic Writings/Platonic Readings, and co-editor (with David Konstan) of Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, and Christian.