Adam Smith's Discourse challenges the conventional view of Smith's
corpus of writings as a founding statement of modernity and a free
market order. Instead of seeing these as espousing the values of a
new commercial society in the making, the reading presented here
underscores the deep ambivalences and tensions at work in Smith's
texts. This new interpretation is achieved by a series of close
readings which draw on recent debates in post-structuralism and
literary theory. Adam Smith's Discourse examines the textual
complexity of all Smith's major works by analyzing their stylistic,
figurative and rhetorical features, and by reading them in the
context of enlightenment discourses on the moral, jurisprudential,
political and economic aspects of society. Although the The Wealth
of Nations has been celebrated as a clarion call for a modern
manufacturing and commercial order, Adam Smith's Discourse shows
that its attack on mercantilism was based on a critique of what was
seen as an over-expansion of trade and manufacturing at the expense
of agriculture, the more beneficial activity.
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