The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment

Berry Examines The Writings Of The Scottish Enlightenment, Focusing On Their Conception Of A Commercial Society. This Focus Captures Both What The Scottish Enlightenment Is Now Best Known For As Well As What Contemporaneously Most Engaged Its Participants. This Engagement Critically Involved A Re-calibration Of Social Norms And That, In Turn, Entailed A Re-thinking Of The Constituents (institutions, Behaviour And So On) Of 'society'. Central To This Re-thinking Was The Scots' Appreciation That The Present Had To Be Understood Via The Past. Christopher J. Berry. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 211-238) And Index