Performing Struggle: Parrhēsia in Ferguson

Dr Haig Ferguson

It is impossible to speak too highly of the various admirable and very practical contributions Ferguson made to the Society. They were, one and all, the result of patient research and, latterly, bore the fruits of his wide experience. His mind was a keen and critical one, and his literary style was most lucid and attractive. And now you will allow me to sound the personal note on this greatly b...

Ferguson , Melanie A . and

Thomas Ferguson and

In the White House, among journalists, and for many political practitioners, the idea of a major “political realignment” that might dramatically reshape the face of American politics remains as tantalizing as ever. But among historians and political scientists, no one needs a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing. The long-venerated “realignment” approach to election analysis develop...

Putting Adam Ferguson in his place.

This paper re-conceptualizes the relationship between Ferguson's life and work by locating him in his biographical and geographical context for the purposes of better understanding his proto-sociological writings. Ferguson's work is relatively unknown outside limited sets of literature and current representations of the link between his life and work risk misplacing him as both Scotsman and soc...

Exploitation Benjamin Ferguson and Hillel

Broadly speaking, the term ‘exploitation’ can be applied to a number of different kinds of interaction. Mineral deposits, mistakes, workers, and wombs are all said to be exploited. One sense of exploitation, often applied to the extraction of resources, or capitalising on an opponent’s mistaken move in a board game, connotes mere use or advantage taking. Exploitation in this sense need not impl...