Bringing together new and established scholars, the essays in this collection offer a significant reassessment of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, Adam Ferguson. Moving beyond a concentration on his early Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767), the book explores his experience as a teacher of moral philosophy, his political views in an Age of Revolution, and his historical treatment of the Roman Republic. It also offers an assessment of his intellectual influence and legacy.

Jack A. Hill is Professor of Religion (Social Ethics) in the AddRan College of Liberal Arts at Texas Christian University, US. Michael Brown holds a chair in Irish, Scottish and Enlightenment History at the University of Aberdeen, UK. David Allan is Reader in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews, UK. Xandra Bello obtained a PhD in Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century epistemology and the role of modern science in shaping the political discourse during the Age of Revolutions. Alexander Broadie is an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK. Glen Doris obtained his PhD in History at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Mike Hill is Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, US. Anna Plassart is a Lecturer in Modern British History at the Open University, UK. Craig Smith is the Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in the Scottish Enlightenment in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK.