Routledge The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson (The Pickering Masters)

Product Description This Pickering edition of Adam Ferguson's correspondence contains over 400 letters, most of which have never before been published. The correspondence includes letters between Ferguson and Adam Smith, David Hume and Alexander Carlyle and many other central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment. Review 'This work is very welcome, and will be a prominent addition to any collection in Scottish Enlightenment studies, as well as British and European intellectual history.' Scotia 'Vincenzo Merolle's fine two volume edition of Ferguson's correspondence...gives an opportunity to reassess Ferguson's intellectual contribution while learning a great deal more about the man himself.' British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies About the Author Dr Vincenzo Merolle is at the Department of Political Studies, Faculty of Political Science, University of Rome 'La Sapienza'. Jane B Fagg is McCain Professor in the Department of History at Lyon College, Arkansas.