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'This excellent volume deepens our understanding of the relationship between the ideas and arguments of Smith and Rousseau, and succeeds in making it clear that our understanding of each of these hugely important philosophers depends to a significant extent on our understanding of the other.' James Harris, University of St Andrews Looks at all aspects of the pivotal intellectual relationship between two key figures of the Enlightenment Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) and Adam Smith (1723-1790) are two of the foremost thinkers of the European Enlightenment, thinkers who made seminal contributions to moral and political philosophy and who shaped some of the key concepts of modern political economy. Though we have no solid evidence that they met in person, we do know that they shared many friends and interlocutors, particularly David Hume, who was Smith's closest intellectual associate and who arranged for Rousseau's stay in England in 1766. This collection brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of Adam Smith and Rousseau scholars to explore the key shared concerns of these two great thinkers in politics, philosophy, economics, history and literature. Maria Pia Paganelli is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. Dennis C. Rasmussen is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tufts University. Craig Smith is Adam Smith Lecturer in the Scottish Enlightenment in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Glasgow. Cover image: Adam Smith bust (c) University of Glasgow photography unit. Jean Jacques Rousseau bust, licensed under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2285-7 Barcode
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Citations and Abbreviations
Series Editor's Introduction
Part I: Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau1. Introduction
Maria Pia Paganelli, Dennis C. Rasmussen and Craig Smith
2. On the Place of Politics in Commercial Society
Ryan Patrick Hanley
3. Rousseau and the Scottish Enlightenment: Connections and Disconnections
Mark Hulliung
Part II: Self-interest and Sympathy4. The Role of Interpersonal Comparisons in Moral Learning and the Sources of Recognition Respect: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's amour-propre and Adam Smith's sympathy
Christel Fricke
5. Actors and Spectators: Rousseau's response to eighteenth-century debates on self-interest
Mark Hill
6. Pursuing Sympathy without Vanity: Interpreting Smith's Critique of Rousseau through Smith's Critique of Mandeville
John McHugh
Part III: Moral Sentiments and Spectatorship7. Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Vices of the Marketplace
Michael Schleeter
8. Julie's Garden and the Impartial Spectator: an examination of Smithean themes in Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse
Tabitha Baker
9. Sentimental Conviction: Rousseau's Apologia and the Impartial Spectator
Adam Schoene
Part IV: Commercial Society and Justice10. Being and Appearing: self-falsification, exchange and freedom in Rousseau and Adam Smith
Charles L. Griswold
11. Citizens, Markets and Social Order: An Aristotelian Reading of Smith and Rousseau on Justice
Jimena Hurtado
Part V: Politics and Freedom12. Smith, Rousseau and the True Spirit of a Republican
Dennis C. Rasmussen
13. Left to Their Own Devices: Smith and Rousseau on Public Opinion and the Role of the State
Jason Neidleman
14. Rousseau and Smith: Sympathy, Justice and Cosmopolitics
Neil Saccamano
Notes on Contributors
Index
About the author
Maria Pia Paganelli is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. She is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook on Adam Smith (OUP, 2013) along with Christopher Berry and Craig Smith. She has written extensively in journals on David Hume and Adam Smith.
Dennis C. Rasmussen is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Tufts University. He is the author of The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire (Cambridge University Press, 2014), The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau (Penn State University Press, 2008).
Craig Smith is Adam Smith Lecturer in the Scottish Enlightenment in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Glasgow.
Summary
This collection brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau scholars to explore the key shared concerns of these two great thinkers in politics, philosophy, economics, history and literature.
