El fundamento lingüístico del pensamiento de Adam Smith

Abstract

In the reconstruction of Adam Smith’s philosophical system, his studies on language are a key piece in several senses: they establish the necessity as the base of the development of the human society; define the historical pattern that this development follows; identify the fundamental formula according to which social interactions take place; establish the passage from an isolated consciousness to a dialogical one; and evince the theatrical structure of social relations. All this allows us to develop an interpretation of his work not as a deterministic economic structure, but as a semiotic construction to which we could give multiple forms.