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The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau

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This book constructs a conversation between Smith and Rousseau, and you get to listen in. I've read a lot about both Smith and Rousseau. I still learned a lot from this book. Smith, like most Enlightenment thinkers, thought deeply about what is lost in a modern, commercial society. The book avoids a common problem in modern books on the Enlightenment. Some authors present as their own old arguments against modern commercial society made by Enlightenment thinkers. This book doesn't do that. The author brings you into the conversation between these two great thinkers. It's their conversation. It feels authentic, and it is interesting. I really liked this book. I learned a lot from it.