The relevance of the eighteenth century to modern political theory

buir.contributor.authorAlexander, James
buir.contributor.orcidAlexander, James | 0000-0003-2432-6876
dc.citation.epage9en_US
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dc.citation.spage1en_US
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dc.contributor.authorAlexander, James
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-16T12:18:54Z
dc.date.available2023-02-16T12:18:54Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractThe eighteenth century is still the bottleneck of the history of political theory: the century that separates pre-economic theorists such as Machiavelli, Bodin and Hobbes from post-economic theorists such as Hegel, Mill and Marx. Political thinking became immeasurably much more complicated in the eighteenth century: and yet historians, after at least half a century of extremely judicious scholarship, still have difficulty explaining its significance for contemporary theory. Sagar’s Adam Smith Reconsidered is an important contribution to the attempt to clarify just how modern political theorists should look backward – without hastening back to the abstractions of the seventeenth century or remaining confined to particular involutions of the nineteenth century. Its specific originality is in drawing attention to two important ideas of Adam Smith, seldom seen clearly or at all, ‘the quirk of rationality’ and ‘the conspiracy of merchants’. Political theorists as well as historians of political thought will benefit from familiarising themselves with these ideas.en_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1177/14748851221141030en_US
dc.identifier.eissn1741-2730
dc.identifier.issn1474-8851
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/111458
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSAGEen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14748851221141030en_US
dc.source.titleEuropean Journal of Political Theoryen_US
dc.subjectPaul Sagaren_US
dc.subjectEighteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectAdam Smithen_US
dc.subjectCommercial societyen_US
dc.subjectPolitical theoryen_US
dc.titleThe relevance of the eighteenth century to modern political theoryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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