Adam Ferguson’s Later Writings

Ian Stewart is Research Fellow at the Institute for Advances Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. He is an historian of European ideas. He researches theories of race and civilization as they were developed at the University of Edinburgh in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is co-editor of Adam Ferguson's Later Writings (EUP, 2023). Max Skjönsberg is an Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Hamilton Center at the University of Florida.

• Preface and Acknowledgements Series Editor’s Introduction Editorial Conventions Part IEditorial Introduction New Letters of Adam Ferguson Part II: Essays‘Dr Ferguson’s Opinion [on the French Revolution]’ (1797?) Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published by Dr. Price,intitled, Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, thePrinciples of Government, and the Justice and Policy ofthe War with America, &c. (1776) Minutes of the Life and Character of Joseph Black,M.D. (1801) Biographical Sketch: Or, Memoir of Lieutenant-ColonelPatrick Ferguson (1817) Part III: AppendicesAppendix A: Further Correspondence in MSS EUR F/291/97 Appendix B: The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson andSir John Macpherson Appendix C: Further Miscellaneous Anecdotes aboutFerguson from Hugh Cleghorn Bibliography Index

New writings by Adam Ferguson are made available for the first time in this significant edition. Important re-discovered letters (and one essay) shed fresh light on his original commentary on the French Revolution, and introduce his frequent correspondent Sir James Macpherson as a key player in late Scottish Enlightenment networks.