Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Abbreviations vii
4. Series Editor’s Introduction ix
5. 1. The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment: An Introduction 1
6. Part I General Perspectives
7. 2. Human Nature and Social Change: Historical Institutionalism in the Scottish Enlightenment 21
8. 3. Adventitious Sociology: Dispassion and Insight in the Scottish Enlightenment 46
9. Part II Sociological Ideas in the Scottish Enlightenment
10. 4. Adam Ferguson as Founding Father of Sociology 85
11. 5. ‘Partly social, partly selfish’: The Social Evolutionism of Henry Home, Lord Kames 103
12. 6. Pre-Weberian Charismatic Leadership and Aesthetics of Deference in the Scottish Enlightenment 134
13. 7. Sociology within the Statistical Account of Scotland 153
14. Part III The Sociological Afterlife of the Scottish Enlightenment
15. 8. Hegel and the Notion of Retroactive Necessity in the Scottish Enlightenment 199
16. 9. Traces of Hume in Sociology 219
17. 10. Hume and Durkheim: Common Views on Sociality 244
18. 11. Westermarckian Evolutionary Perspective on Scottish Moral Sentimentalism 269
19. 12. In Praise of Adam Smith, or, The Workings of Commercial Society 292
20. 13. John Millar and Sociology: Disciplinary History and its Discontents 330
21. 14. ‘Das Adam Smith Problem’: A Sociological Reassessment 355
22. 15. The Foundational Document of the Sociology of Knowledge 381
23. Notes on Contributors 410
24. Index of Names 414
25. Index of Subjects 417