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082 0 4 _a330.15/3
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100 1 _aYoon, Hye-Joon,
_d1962-
245 1 4 _aThe rhetoric of tenses in Adam Smith's The wealth of nations /
_cby Hye-Joon Yoon.
264 1 _aLeiden ;
_aBoston :
_bBrill,
_c[2017]
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aBrill's studies in intellectual history,
_x0920-8607 ;
_vvol. 275
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _aIntroduction -- "The Nicest Subtleties": Smith and Other Grammarians -- "The Didactick and the Rhetoricall" Tenses of Philosophy -- "Hence the Origin": Tenses of History, Conjectural and Actual -- The "Progress of Opulence" and the Present Perfect -- The "System of Natural Liberty" and Futurity -- Conclusion.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aThe Rhetoric of Tenses in Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" examines the tenses of the predicates in the famous and typical passages of the monumental work to explore the intricacies of the rhetoric and argument they support, paying particular attention to the question of temporality. Smith's subtle modulation of language attests to his reluctance to offer a mere theory of economics and to his refusal to ignore the complicated challenges history and actuality offer to his beliefs in the natural system of liberty. The theoretical frame of the book is derived from the grammarians of Smith's age, in particular James Harris. The supple interdisciplinary approach of this book invites literary and publishing histories to converse with intellectual history.
600 1 0 _aSmith, Adam,
_d1723-1790.
_tInquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations.
650 0 _aRhetoric.
650 0 _aGrammar, Comparative and general
_xTense.
830 0 _aBrill's Studies in Intellectual History
_v275.
830 0 _aBrill's Studies in Intellectual History Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004353381.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004356863
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