Product Description: Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action...read more

Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains a set of essays that analyse Ferguson's philosophical, political and sociological writings and the discourse which they prompted between Ferguson and other important figures.

Product Description: Renowned for his An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767), Ferguson offers writings that are distinguished by a moral and historical bent, framed within a teleological outlook that upholds the importance of action and virtue for the emerging society of the 18th century.