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    Adam Smith and the Death of David Hume: The Letter to Strahan and Related Texts

    This volume centers on an annotated edition of a short, controversial work that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David…

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    The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

    Dennis C. Rasmussen

    The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships-and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during…

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    Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders

    Dennis C. Rasmussen

    The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had createdAmericans seldom deify their Founding…

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    Adam Smith and the Death of David Hume: The Letter to Strahan and Related Texts

    This volume centers on an annotated edition of a short, controversial work that Adam Smith wrote on the last days, death, and character of his closest friend, the philosopher David…

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    The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought

    Dennis C. Rasmussen

    The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships–and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but…

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    Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders

    Dennis C. Rasmussen

    The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation they had createdAmericans seldom deify their Founding…

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    The Constitution’s Penman

    Dennis C. Rasmussen

    Gouverneur Morris, who has been described as 'the most colorful man in North America' at the time of the founding, was a dominant figure at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787…

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    The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith’s Response to Rousseau

    Dennis C. Rasmussen (Syracuse U. )

    Adam Smith is popularly regarded as the ideological forefather of laissez-faire capitalism, while Rousseau is seen as the passionate advocate of the life of virtue in small harmonious communities and…

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    The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire

    Dennis C. Rasmussen (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

    This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen argues that these…

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    The Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, and Voltaire

    Dennis C. Rasmussen (Tufts University, Massachusetts)

    This is a study of the political theory of the Enlightenment, focusing on four leading eighteenth-century thinkers: David Hume, Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire. Dennis C. Rasmussen argues that these…

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    Adam Smith and Rousseau: Ethics, Politics, Economics

    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…

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    Adam Smith and Rousseau: Ethics, Politics, Economics

    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…

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    Rethinking the Enlightenment: Between History, Philosophy, and Politics

    Rethinking the Enlightenment connects new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of Continental philosophy and political theory. The collection bridges the disciplinary divides between the Enlightenment as understood in…

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    Rethinking the Enlightenment: Between History, Philosophy, and Politics

    Rethinking the Enlightenment connects new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of Continental philosophy and political theory. The collection bridges the disciplinary divides between the Enlightenment as understood in…

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