Edinburgh University Press
The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment
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About this book
This book provides answers to two sorts of questions. It explores, on the one hand, how and what sociological ideas were developed in the Scottish Enlightenment. And, on the other hand, how the ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment would emerge and develop in subsequent traditions of sociology. Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed and refined a descriptive-explanatory approach and methodology to explore social and economic processes – an approach that was different from the normative and justificatory aspirations of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century social and political philosophies. This distinct contribution of the Scottish Enlightenment is frequently overlooked, even if some of its central figures are acknowledged as important forerunners of contemporary social sciences.
This book offers a synoptic view on individual contributions and a connective view of theoretical achievements that are otherwise typically treated in isolation.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Abbreviations
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Series Editor’s Introduction
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1. The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment: An Introduction
1 - Part I General Perspectives
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2. Human Nature and Social Change: Historical Institutionalism in the Scottish Enlightenment
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3. Adventitious Sociology: Dispassion and Insight in the Scottish Enlightenment
46 - Part II Sociological Ideas in the Scottish Enlightenment
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4. Adam Ferguson as Founding Father of Sociology
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5. ‘Partly social, partly selfish’: The Social Evolutionism of Henry Home, Lord Kames
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6. Pre-Weberian Charismatic Leadership and Aesthetics of Deference in the Scottish Enlightenment
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7. Sociology within the Statistical Account of Scotland
153 - Part III The Sociological Afterlife of the Scottish Enlightenment
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8. Hegel and the Notion of Retroactive Necessity in the Scottish Enlightenment
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9. Traces of Hume in Sociology
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10. Hume and Durkheim: Common Views on Sociality
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11. Westermarckian Evolutionary Perspective on Scottish Moral Sentimentalism
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12. In Praise of Adam Smith, or, The Workings of Commercial Society
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13. John Millar and Sociology: Disciplinary History and its Discontents
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14. ‘Das Adam Smith Problem’: A Sociological Reassessment
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15. The Foundational Document of the Sociology of Knowledge
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Notes on Contributors
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Index of Names
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Index of Subjects
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