Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Ian Stewart (Associate Lecturer in European Intellectual History, University of Edinburgh) ,  Max Skjönsberg (Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton Center, University of Florida)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:  

9781474480222

ISBN 10:   1474480225
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   31 August 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Series Editor’s Introduction Editorial Conventions Part I Editorial Introduction New Letters of Adam Ferguson Part II: Essays ‘Dr Ferguson’s Opinion [on the French Revolution]’ (1797?) Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published by Dr. Price, intitled, Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America, &c. (1776) Minutes of the Life and Character of Joseph Black, M.D. (1801) Biographical Sketch: Or, Memoir of Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Ferguson (1817) Part III: Appendices Appendix A: Further Correspondence in MSS EUR F/291/97 Appendix B: The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson and Sir John Macpherson Appendix C: Further Miscellaneous Anecdotes about Ferguson from Hugh Cleghorn Bibliography Index

Reviews

New writings by Adam Ferguson are made available for the first time in this significant edition. Important re-discovered letters (and one essay) shed fresh light on his original commentary on the French Revolution, and introduce his frequent correspondent Sir James Macpherson as a key player in late Scottish Enlightenment networks. -- Anna Plassart, Open University Three dozen new letters from Adam Ferguson to Sir John Macpherson highlight this volume of writings from the latter part of Ferguson's career. Filled with Ferguson's characteristic wit and charm, the letters constitute a valuable addition to our knowledge of the man and his circle. -- Richard B. Sher, author of Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment Stewart & Skjönsberg have provided contemporary readers with an Adam Ferguson feast in a splendidly edited and introduced set of hitherto unpublished letters and an essay on the French Revolution, in addition to providing modern editions of Ferguson’s late works and correspondence. The politics of Scottish moral philosophy in the context of enlightenment and revolution need to be reassessed in the light of their outstanding scholarship. -- Richard Whatmore, University of St Andrews The volume’s backbone and raison d’être remain the rediscovered manuscripts, which are usefully contextualized in a wide-ranging introduction. They depict a Ferguson who was not a backward-looking ancient republican but rather a well-informed participant in the great political upheavals that marked the late Enlightenment. -- Anna Plassart * Eighteenth-Century Scotland * a welcomed addition to Scottish Enlightenment studies. -- Mark G. Spencer, Brock University * History of European Ideas *

a welcomed addition to Scottish Enlightenment studies.--Mark G. Spencer, Brock University ""History of European Ideas"" The volume's backbone and raison d'être remain the rediscovered manuscripts, which are usefully contextualized in a wide-ranging introduction. They depict a Ferguson who was not a backward-looking ancient republican but rather a well-informed participant in the great political upheavals that marked the late Enlightenment.--Anna Plassart ""Eighteenth-Century Scotland"" New writings by Adam Ferguson are made available for the first time in this significant edition. Important re-discovered letters (and one essay) shed fresh light on his original commentary on the French Revolution, and introduce his frequent correspondent Sir James Macpherson as a key player in late Scottish Enlightenment networks. --Anna Plassart, Open University Stewart & Skjönsberg have provided contemporary readers with an Adam Ferguson feast in a splendidly edited and introduced set of hitherto unpublished letters and an essay on the French Revolution, in addition to providing modern editions of Ferguson's late works and correspondence. The politics of Scottish moral philosophy in the context of enlightenment and revolution need to be reassessed in the light of their outstanding scholarship. --Richard Whatmore, University of St Andrews Three dozen new letters from Adam Ferguson to Sir John Macpherson highlight this volume of writings from the latter part of Ferguson's career. Filled with Ferguson's characteristic wit and charm, the letters constitute a valuable addition to our knowledge of the man and his circle. --Richard B. Sher, author of Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment

Author Information

Ian Stewart is Research Fellow at the Institute for Advances Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. He is an historian of European ideas. He researches theories of race and civilization as they were developed at the University of Edinburgh in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is co-editor of Adam Ferguson's Later Writings (EUP, 2023). Max Skjönsberg is an Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton Center at the University of Florida.

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Countries Available

All regions