Preface: reading palimpsests
Citation System
1 The Enlightenment, post-scepticism, and an unfinished oeuvre
2 Language, theories, machines: the Philosophical History of the Arts and Sciences
3 Looking-glasses: the Theory of Moral Sentiments as experimental philosophy
4 Legislators without the impartial spectator: the Theory and History of Law and Government
5 An immense machine: Wealth of Nations as rhetorical discourse
6 The Enlightenment and proto-pragmatism
Index
Biography
Sergio Cremaschi (Bergamo, 1949) was Professor of Philosophy at Ferrara University, Turin University and Amedeo Avogadro University until his retirement in 2014. He also held roles as a visiting fellow or lecturer at several universities, including the New School for Social Research in New York, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Aarhus University, and Nuffield College, Oxford. He has published extensively on ethical theory, the history of ethics, and the history and philosophy of economics. This book is part of a trilogy on philosophy and political economy, which also includes Utilitarianism and Malthus’s Virtue Ethics (2014; ESHET Best Book award for 2015) and David Ricardo: An Intellectual Biography (2021).
