Adam Smith's name has become synonymous with free market economics; The Wealth of Nations is taken as the definitive account of the benefits of free competitive markets. Yet recent scholarship has challenged this view and given us a richer, more nuanced figure, steeped in the intricacies of enlightenment social and political philosophy. Adam Smith's Discourse both develops this literature and gives it a radical new extension by taking into account recent debates in literary theory.

• BOOK COVER 2
• HALF-TITLE 3
• TITLE 5
• COPYRIGHT 6
• DEDICATION 7
• CONTENTS 9
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 11
• INTRODUCTION 13
• 1. READING ADAM SMITH’S DISCOURSE 19
• 2. SIGNIFYING VOICES 31
• 3. THE DIALOGIC EXPERIENCE OF cONSCIENCE 60
• 4. TMS AND THE STOIC MORAL HIERARCHY 79
• 5. JUSTICE AND JURISPRUDENCE 100
• 6. THE EMERGENCE OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS 137
• 7. THE SYSTEM OF NATURAL LIBERTY 154