Synopses & Reviews
This Companion volume provides an up-to-date examination of all aspects of Smith's thought.
Review
Historian Haakonssen has assembled arguably the most wide-ranging perspective yet published on the social vision of Adam Smith.-- Choice
About the Author
Knud Haakonssen is professor in the Department of History at the University of Sussex. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, he is the author and editor of numerous books and texts, most recently Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment and, with Andrew S. Skinner, Index to the Works of Adam Smith.
Table of Contents
Introduction Knud Haakonssen; 1. Imagination: morals, science, arts Charles L. Griswold, Jr.; 2. Adam Smith, Belletrist Mark Salber Phillips; 3. Adam Smith's theory of language Marcelo Dascal; 4. Adam Smith and science Christopher J. Berry; 5. Smith on ingenuity, pleasure, and the imitative arts Neil De Marchi; 6. Sympathy and the impartial spectator Alexander Broadie; 7. Virtues, utility, and rules Robert Shaver; 8. Justice, rights, and law David Lieberman; 9. Self-interest and other interests Pratap Mehta; 10. Smith on history J. G .A. Pocock; 11. Adam Smith's politics Douglas Long; 12. Adam Smith's economics Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen; 13. The legacy of Adam Smith Knud Haakonssen and Donald Winch.