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Names: Griswold, Charles L., 1951-author.
Title: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: a philosophical encounter/
by Charles L Griswold.
Description: 1 [edition]. | New York: Routledge, 2017. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017017998 | ISBN 9781138218956 (hardback: alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781315436579 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Self-knowledge, Theory of. | Self (Philosophy) | Rousseau,
Jean-Jacques, 17121778. | Smith, Adam, 17231790.
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Rousseaus texts
CW | The Collected Writings of Rousseau, edited by Roger D. Masters and Christopher Kelly. 13 vols. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 19902010. Cited by volume and page number. |
DI | Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality among Men . In The Discourses and other early political writings , edited and translated by Victor Gourevitch, 111222. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Cited by page and paragraph number. The DI is also referred to here as the Second Discourse . |
FD | Discourse on the Sciences and Arts . In The Discourses and other early political writings , edited and translated by Victor Gourevitch, 128. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Cited by page and paragraph number. The FD is also referred to here as the First Discourse . |
OC | Oeuvres compltes , edited by Bernard Gagnebin and Marcel Raymond. 5 vols. Paris: Gallimard, Bibliothque de la Pliade, 195995. Cited by volume and page number. |
Preface | Preface to Narcissus. In The Discourses and other early political writings , edited and translated by Victor Gourevitch, 92106. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Cited by page and paragraph number. |
Rousseau | Rousseau: Discours sur lorigine et les fondements de lingalit parmi les hommes, edited with an Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, and Chronology by Blaise Bachofen and Bruno Bernardi. Paris: Flammarion,2008. |
SC | Of the Social Contract or Principles of Political Right. In The Social Contract and other later political writings , edited and translated by Victor Gourevitch, 39152. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. The SC is cited by book, chapter, and paragraph numbers. |
The two volumes edited and translated by Gourevitch ( The Discourses and other early political writings and The Social Contract and other later political writings ) include Gourevitchs valuable Introductions and Notes, also cited in this study.
Smiths texts
I have used the Liberty Fund reprints of the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith , originally published by Oxford University Press. I have also used the Glasgow editions pagination system throughout. In the case of citations from CAS, EPS , and LRBL , I have included the page number.
AP | The Principles which lead and direct Philosophical Enquiries; illustrated by the History of the Ancient Physics. In EPS, 10617. |
CAS | Correspondence of Adam Smith , edited by Ernest C. Mossner and Ian S. Ross. Rpt. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,1987. |
EPS | Essays on Philosophical Subjects , edited by William P. D. Wightman and J. C. Bryce. Rpt. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,1982. |
HA | The Principles which lead and direct Philosophical Enquiries; illustrated by the History of Astronomy. In EPS, 31105. |
IA | Of the Nature of that Imitation which takes place in what are called The Imitative Arts. In EPS , 176213. |
Letter | A Letter to the Authors of the Edinburgh Review. In EPS , 24254. |
LJ | Lectures on Jurisprudence , edited by Ronald L. Meek, David D. Raphael, and Peter G. Stein. Rpt. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,1982. (2 sets: LJ (A) = Report of 176263; LJ (B) = Report dated 1766.) |
LRBL | Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres , edited by J. C. Bryce. Rpt. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,1985. |
TMS | The Theory of Moral Sentiments, edited by David D. Raphael and Alec L. Macfie. Rpt. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,1982. |
WN | An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations . 2 vols., edited by Roy H. Campbell and Andrew S. Skinner; textual editor William B. Todd. Rpt. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund,1981. |
Other works
ASCV | Ryan P. Hanley, Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. |
ASD | Vivienne Brown, Adam Smiths Discourse : Canonicity, Commerce and Conscience. London: Routledge,1994. |
ASLTL | Ryan P. Hanley, ed., Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. |
ASVE | Charles L. Griswold, Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. |
ASWN | Samuel Fleischacker, On Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations: A Philosophical Companion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. |
OHAS | The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith , edited by Christopher J. Berry, Maria P. Paganelli, and Craig Smith. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. |
PPCS | Dennis C. Rasmussen, The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smiths Response to Rousseau . University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. |
RCI | Frederick Neuhouser, Rousseaus Critique of Inequality: Reconstructing the Second Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
Titles in the secondary literature are shortened throughout this study; full references will be found in the Bibliography. The quotation from Rousseau on the epigraph page to this volume is from the third of the Moral Letters and will be found in CW XII, 183/ OC IV,1092. The quotation from Smith on the epigraph page is from IA I.17, EPS , 186.
Interpreters of eighteenth-century thought face a sometimes delicate problem with regard to the use of gendered terms, given the usage in that period. For a helpful discussion of the problem, see Neuhouser, Rousseaus Theodicy of Self-love , 246. While I have generally sought gender-neutral terms when discussing the views of Rousseau and Smith, I have also tried to avoid anachronism and distortion of their texts as well as cumbersome prose.
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