Adam Ferguson and the Idea of Civil Society

Examines Adam Ferguson's philosophy, political theory and social thought in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment The first monograph explicitly devoted to the idea of civil society in the work of Adam Ferguson – its earliest British exponentPlaces civil society at the heart of a study of Ferguson’s methodology of social scienceContributes to the history and understanding of a key concept in contemporary social and political thinkingChallenges the existing interpretations of Ferguson as a sc