About the Author
Jerry Z. Muller is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Other God That Failed: Hans Freyer and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society, and Conservatism: An Anthology of Social and Political Thought from David Hume to the Present. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Table of Contents
IntroductionONE
Historical Backdrop: Rights, Righteousness, and Virtue
TWO
Voltaire: “A Merchant of a Noble Kind”
THREE
Adam Smith: Moral Philosophy and Political Economy
FOUR
Justus Möser: The Market as Destroyer of Culture
FIVE
Edmund Burke: Commerce, Conservatism, and the Intellectuals
SIX
Hegel: A Life Worth Choosing
SEVEN
Karl Marx: From Jewish Usury to Universal Vampirism
EIGHT
Matthew Arnold: Weaning the Philistines from the Drug of Business
NINE
Weber, Simmel, and Sombart: Community, Individuality, and Rationality
TEN
Lukás and Freyer: From the Quest for Community to the Temptations of Totality
ELEVEN
Schumpeter: Innovation and Resentment
TWELVE
From Keynes to Marcuse: Affluence and Its Discontents
THIRTEEN
Friedrich Hayek: Untimely Liberal
Conclusion
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index