This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.

This volume contains a newly-edited cache of over 30 manuscript essays on a diverse range of topics and descriptions.

This Pickering edition of Adam Ferguson's correspondence contains over 400 letters, most of which have never before been published. The correspondence includes letters between Ferguson and Adam Smith, David Hume and Alexander Carlyle and many other central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains essays that range across all of Ferguson's works to investigate his engagement with contemporary events and his contributions to our understanding of history and human action.

A philosopher and historian, Adam Ferguson occupies a unique place within eighteenth-century Scottish thought. Distinguished by a moral and historical bent, his work is framed within a teleological outlook that upholds the importance of action and virtue.

"Alongside his highly acclaimed An Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767) - widely regarded as a foundational work in sociology - he wrote pamphlets on political issues, composed texts on moral and political philosophy, and published a multi-volume history of the Roman Republic. Distinguished by its combination of the moral and the historical, his work is framed within a teleological outlook that upholds the importance of action and virtue in the emerging commercial society of the eighteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Unique among the leading figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson saw two eighteenth-century revolutions, the American and the French. This monograph contains a set of essays that analyse Ferguson's philosophical, political and sociological writings and the discourse which they prompted between Ferguson and other important figures.