Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment

Chris Berry is Professor Emeritus of Political Theory at the University of Glasgow, which he joined from 1970, from the LSE where he completed his doctorate. He is best known for his work on the Scottish Enlightenment and on the idea of luxury. He has given invited keynote lectures on these themes in China, Japan, Chile, the US and in Europe. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

1. The Study of the Scottish Enlightenment: an Autobiographical Journey
Part I: Scottish Enlightenment
Introduction to Part I
2. James Dunbar and Ideas of Sociality and Language in Eighteenth Century Scotland
3. James Dunbar and the Enlightenment Debate on Language
4."Climate" in the Eighteenth Century: James Dunbar and the Scottish Case
5. Sociality and Socialisation
6. Rude Religion: The Psychology of Polytheism in the Scottish Enlightenment
7. "But art itself is Natural to Man": Ferguson and the Principle of Simultaneity
8. Finding Space for Civil Society

Part II: David Hume
Introduction to Part II
9. Hume on Rationality in History and Social Life
10. Lusty Women and Loose Imagination: Hume's Philosophical Anthropology of Chastity
11. Hume and the Customary Causes of Industry, Knowledge and Commerce
12. Hume's Universalism: The Science of Man and the Anthropological Point of View
13. Hume and Superfluous Value (or the problem with Epictetus' Slippers)
14. Science and Superstition: Hume and Conservatism
15. Hume on Happiness

Part III: Adam Smith
Introduction to Part III
16. Adam Smith's "Considerations" on Language
17. Smith and Science
18. Adam Smith: Commerce, Liberty and Modernity
19. Adam Smith and the Virtues of a Modern Economy
20. Adam Smith's Science of Human Nature
21. Adam Smith on Liberty "in our present sense of the word"

Bibliography
Index