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David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
March 30, 2023 at 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
| Location: | 303 Paterson Hall |
| Audience: | Anyone |
| Key Contact: | Marc Hanvelt |
| Contact Email: | marc.hanvelt@carleton.ca |
Speaker: Dennis C. Rasmussen
Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University
All are welcome.
Professor Rasmussen is the author of five books, including The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought, which was shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award and named a best book of the year in The Guardian, Bloomberg, Project Syndicate, Australian Book Review, and Five Books; Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders, which was named a best politics book of the year in the Wall Street Journal; and, most recently, The Constitution’s Penman: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of America’s Basic Charter.
This talk is sponsored by The College of the Humanities & The Department of Political Science at Carleton University, and The Institute for Liberal Studies.