Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Chapter 1. The Sociological Heritage of the Scottish Enlightenment: An Introduction - Tamás Demeter Part I. General perspectives Chapter 2. Human Nature and Social Change: Historical Institutionalism in the Scottish Enlightenment - Christopher Berry Chapter 3. The Adventitious Sociology: Dispassion and Insight in the Scottish Enlightenment - Kenneth Macdonald Part II. Sociological Ideas in the Scottish Enlightenment Chapter 4. Adam Ferguson as Founding Father of Sociology - Craig Smith Chapter 5. "Partly social, partly selfish": The Social Evolutionism of Henry Home, Lord Kames - Robin Mills Chapter 6.
Pre-Weberian Theories of Charismatic Leadership and the Aesthetics of Deference in the Scottish Enlightenment - Spyridon Tegos Chapter 7. Sociology within the Statistical Account of Scotland - Kenneth Macdonald Part III. The Sociological Afterlife of the Scottish Enlightenment Chapter 8. Hegel and the Notion of Retroactive Necessity in the Scottish Enlightenment - Dirk Schuck Chapter 9. Traces of Hume in Sociology - Angela Coventry Chapter 10. Hume and Durkheim: Common Views on Sociality - Catherine Dromelet Chapter 11. Westermarckian Evolutionary Perspective on Scottish Moral Sentimentalism - Otto Pipatti Chapter 12. In Praise of Adam Smith, or the Workings of Commercial Society - John A.
Hall Chapter 13. John Millar and Sociology: Disciplinary History and Its Discontents - Nicholas Miller Chapter 14. 'Das Adam Smith Problem': A Sociological Reassesment - Aldo Mascareno and Leonidas Montes Chapter 15. The Foundational Document of the Sociology of Knowledge - Tamás Demeter.