TY - BOOK ID - 77927075 TI - Adam Ferguson AU - Allan, David AU - Arts & Humanities Research Council (Great Britain) PY - 2006 SN - 1857520289 9781857520286 9781906108007 1906108005 1857521382 9781857521382 PB - Aberdeen DB - UniCat KW - Enlightenment KW - Philosophers KW - Ferguson, Adam, KW - Influence. KW - Scotland KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77927075 AB - Adam Ferguson (1723-1816) was among the Scottish Enlightenment's most influential philosophers as well as one of its most colourful and engaging characters. His pioneering contributions to the development of political economy and social theory have long been acknowledged--though, unfortunately, they have also often been misrepresented. At the same time, it is clear that the significance both of his professional activities as a distinguished university teacher in Edinburgh and of his status as one of the eighteenth century's foremost historians of the Roman republic has been insufficiently appreciated. This innovative study of Ferguson's life and ideas sets out to introduce this much-misunderstood figure to a new and wider audience. Paying particular attention to the powerful intellectual currents which converged so fruitfully in his writings, it explores the deep Scottish and European roots of Ferguson's thought and assesses the continuing pertinence of some of his arguments about the origins and nature of society for an understanding of the modern world. ER -