
Compare The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment by Christopher J. Berry, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Christopher J. Berry
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A definitive exposition of a key idea shaping the world we know today. The most arresting aspect of the Scottish Enlightenment is its conception of commercial society as a distinct and distinctive social formation. Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercialsociety to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, and charts the contemporary debates and tensions between Enlightenment thinkers that this idea raised. | The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment by Christopher J. Berry, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters