The rhetoric of tenses in Adam Smith's The wealth of nations
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The rhetoric of tenses in Adam Smith's The wealth of nations
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 275）
Brill, c2018
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-283) and index
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内容説明
The Rhetoric of Tenses in Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" examines the tenses of the predicates in the famous and typical passages of the monumental work to explore the intricacies of the rhetoric and argument they support, paying particular attention to the question of temporality. Smith's subtle modulation of language attests to his reluctance to offer a mere theory of economics and to his refusal to ignore the complicated challenges history and actuality offer to his beliefs in the natural system of liberty. The theoretical frame of the book is derived from the grammarians of Smith's age, in particular James Harris. The supple interdisciplinary approach of this book invites literary and publishing histories to converse with intellectual history.
目次
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
List of Tables
Introduction
1 "The Nicest Subtleties": Smith and Other Grammarians
The Author, His Publishers, and the Pages
Grammarians and "the Consideration of Verbs"
James Harris on the Present Tense
Tenses of Non-Presence
2 "The Didactick and the Rhetoricall" Tenses of Philosophy
"Every Where and Always Invariably One"
"Private Interests and Passions"
A Philosophy of Commerce?
3 "Hence the Origin": Tenses of History, Conjectural and Actual
In Search of the "Causes"
The Conjectural History of Labor and the Actual History of Money
"The Remembrance of Former Events"
4 The "Progress of Opulence" and the Present Perfect
The Progress of "Progress"
Climate, Nations, and Progress
Natural and Unnatural Progresses
5 The "System of Natural Liberty" and Futurity
"The Prospect of Concatenated Events"
"System" and "Value"
Credo in the "Invisible Hand"
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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