Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Propriety

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Contents Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix Chapter 1 Smith and the Problem of Propriety 1 Chapter 2 Smith and Propriety in the ClassicalTradition 25 Chapter 3 Rhetorical Propriety in Eighteenth-Century 53 Theories of Discourse Chapter 4 Propriety in Smith’s Rhetoric Lectures 73 Chapter 5 Propriety in TheTheory of Moral Sentiments 111 Chapter 6 Conclusions, Provocations 133 Smith and Rhetoric: A Critical Note on Sources and 149 Scholarship Notes 157 References 169 Index 179 ...