Case for the Enlightenment - Scotland and Naples 1680-1760

Informationen zum Autor This is an author bio lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Klappentext An interesting and ambitious comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and Naples. Zusammenfassung An interesting and ambitious comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments! John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The case for the Enlightenment; 2. Scotland and Naples in 1700; 3. The intellectual worlds of Naples and Scotland 1680-c.1725; 4. The predicament of 'kingdoms governed as provinces'; 5. Vico, after Bayle; 6. Hume, after Bayle and Mandeville; 7. The advent of Enlightenment: political economy in Naples and Scotland 1730-1760; Conclusion: the Enlightenment vindicated?; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Robertson John, John Robertson, John (University of Oxford) Robertson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521847872
• ISBN: 978-0-521-84787-2
• No. of pages: 476
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous