When Istvan Hont died in 2013 the world lost a giant of intellectual history. Markets, Morals, Politics brings together a celebrated cast of Hont's contemporaries to explore his influence, ideas, and methods-a work of interpretation that does justice to Hont's influence while developing its own provocative, illuminating arguments.
Kapossy argues that some of the most powerful and insightful criticism of Rousseau came from his Swiss contemporaries. He surveys eighteenth-century Swiss republican responses to Rousseau's political thought, especially by Basle's secretary of state, the noted political philosopher Isaak Iselin. Kapossy shows that the core of the Rousseau and Iselin dialogue consisted of their respective assessments of whether Swiss republican city-states shou...
