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New Voices on Adam Smith (review)

New Voices on Adam Smith (review) Volume 33, Number 1, April 2007, pp. 183-185 Leónidas Montes and Eric Schliesser, eds. New Voices on Adam Smith. London: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xxi + 364. ISBN 0-415-35696-2, Cloth, $145. Recent years have seen a great upsurge in scholarly interest in Adam Smith. This exceptionally wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of essays, by a group of scholars who have recently finished doctoral dissertations on Smith or a closely related topic, is perfectly timed to complement the more authoritative Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith (2006). The multidisciplinary diversity of their various contributions once again confirms that Smith is much more than the father of political economy, with just five economists amongst the fourteenÂ--this despite the volume's rather counter-intuitive inclusion in Routledge's Studies in the History of Economics. As Knud Haakonssen points out in a lucid foreword, such diversification is entirely appropriate to Smith himself, for whom "moral philosophy is first of all a grand anthropological theory within which language and literature, arts and sciences, politics and law, and, of course, economics are to be studied with the aim of establishing empiricallyÂ--mainly historicallyÂ--the balance between nature and culture" (xviii). After a concise introduction in which Montes and Schliesser summarise Smith scholarship http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Hume Studies Hume Society

New Voices on Adam Smith (review)

Towsey, Mark R. M.
Hume Studies , Volume 33 (1) – Jan 26, 2007
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Volume 33, Number 1, April 2007, pp. 183-185 Leónidas Montes and Eric Schliesser, eds. New Voices on Adam Smith. London: Routledge, 2006. Pp. xxi + 364. ISBN 0-415-35696-2, Cloth, $145. Recent years have seen a great upsurge in scholarly interest in Adam Smith. This exceptionally wide-ranging and thought-provoking collection of essays, by a group of scholars who have recently finished doctoral dissertations on Smith or a closely related topic, is perfectly timed to complement the more authoritative Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith (2006). The multidisciplinary diversity of their various contributions once again confirms that Smith is much more than the father of political economy, with just five economists amongst the fourteenÂ--this despite the volume's rather counter-intuitive inclusion in Routledge's Studies in the History of Economics. As Knud Haakonssen points out in a lucid foreword, such diversification is entirely appropriate to Smith himself, for whom "moral philosophy is first of all a grand anthropological theory within which language and literature, arts and sciences, politics and law, and, of course, economics are to be studied with the aim of establishing empiricallyÂ--mainly historicallyÂ--the balance between nature and culture" (xviii). After a concise introduction in which Montes and Schliesser summarise Smith scholarship

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