Economy, Polity, and Society
Economy, Polity, and Society
Summary
These two volumes contain essays by many of the leading scholars in modern British intellectual history, covering a wide range of topics and thinkers. They all draw upon new research, but are written in a clear, readable style that will make them accessible to a wide spectrum of readers.
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Economy, Polity, and Society by Stefan Collini
Economy, Polity, and Society and its companion volume History, Religion, and Culture bring together major new essays on British intellectual history by many of the leading scholars of the period, continuing a mode of enquiry for which Donald Winch and John Burrow have been widely celebrated. This volume addresses aspects of the eighteenth-century attempt, particularly in the work of Adam Smith, to come to grips with the nature of 'commercial society' and its distinctive notions of the self, of political liberty, and of economic progress. It then explores the adaptations of and responses to the Enlightenment legacy in the work of such early nineteenth-century figures as Jeremy Bentham, Tom Paine and Maria Edgeworth. Finally, in discussions which range up to the middle of the twentieth century, the volume examines particularly telling examples of the conflict between economic thinking and moral values.'… the authors contributing to this volume have an extremely deep, detailed and subtly nuanced understanding of their subject matter; the volume is a monument to scholarship in the best sense of that term … All British intellectual historians must buy and engage with this book. Indeed, anyone involved in the study of nineteenth-century Britain would do well to read it as a corrective to the misconceptions and generalizations that occur in so many standard texts. For the eager undergraduate the book provides many examples of historical investigation of the highest quality, real benchmarks to measure aspirations against.' Cromhos
Stefan Collini is a Fellow of Clare Hall and a Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge. His previous books include PublicMoralists (1991), English Pasts (1999), and Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain (2006), all published by Oxford University Press. He is a frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The London Review of Books, and other periodicals in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is a member of the Royal Historical Society and the British Academy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521630184 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521630185 |
| Title | Economy, Polity, and Society |
| Author | Stefan Collini |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2000-05-08 |
| Number of pages | 292 |
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