Academic Patronage In The Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Roger L. Emerson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780748631292

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Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment by Roger L. Emerson Pdf

This book considers the politics of patronage appointments at the universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews, exploring the ways in which 388 men secured posts in three Scottish universities between 1690 and 1806. Most professors were political appointees vetted and supported by political factions and their leaders. This comprehensive study explores the improving agenda of political patrons and of those they served and relates this to the Scottish Enlightenment. Emerson argues that what was happening in Scotland was also occurring in other parts of Europe where, in relatively autonomous localities, elite patrons also shaped things as they wished them to be. The role of patronage in the Enlightenment is essential to any understanding of its origins and course.

Author : Edward Andrew
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802090645

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Patrons of Enlightenment by Edward Andrew Pdf

Patrons of Enlightenment emphasizes the dependency of thinkers upon patrons and compares the patron-client relationships in the French, English, and Scottish republics of letters.

Author : Richard B. Sher
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
ISBN : UCAL:B4386307

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Church and University in the Scottish Enlightenment by Richard B. Sher Pdf

Author : Christopher J Berry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780748684533

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Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment by Christopher J Berry Pdf

Christopher Berry explains why Enlightenment thinkers considered commercial society to be wealthier and freer than earlier forms, looking at key works from Adam Smith, David Hume and Adam Ferguson alongside lesser-known figures.

Author : Christopher J. Berry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 9781474415026

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Essays on Hume, Smith and the Scottish Enlightenment by Christopher J. Berry Pdf

Upper-level undergraduate students, postgraduates and scholars working specifically on the Scottish Enlightenment and early modern political and economic thought more generally.

Author : Janet Starkey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004362130

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The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad by Janet Starkey Pdf

In The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad, Janet Starkey examines the careers of Alexander and Patrick Russell and family in Aleppo and India. By re-examining recent interpretations, Starkey argues that the Scottish Enlightenment was a cultural revolution not just a philosophy.

Author : Roger L. Emerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317141648

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Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment by Roger L. Emerson Pdf

The Scottish Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and scientific progress, in a country previously considered to be marginal to the European intellectual scene. Yet the enlightenment was not about politeness or civic humanism, but something more basic - the making of an improved society which could compete in every way in a rapidly changing world. David Hume, writing in 1752, commented that 'industry, knowledge and humanity are linked together by an indissoluble chain'. Collectively this volume of essays embraces many of the topics which Hume included under 'industry, knowledge and humanity': from the European Enlightenment and the Scots relation to it, to Scottish social history and its relation to religion, science and medicine. Overarching themes of what it meant to be enlightened in the eighteenth century are considered alongside more specific studies of notable figures of the period, such as Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, and David Hume, and the training and number of Scottish medical students. Together, the volume provides an opportunity to step back and reconsider the Scottish Enlightenment in its broader context and to consider what new directions this field of study might take.

Author : Silvia Sebastiani
Publisher : Springer
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137069795

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The Scottish Enlightenment by Silvia Sebastiani Pdf

The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a conception, however, presents problematic questions: why were the Americans still savage? Why was it that the Europeans only had completed all the stages of the historic process? Could modern societies escape the destiny of earlier empires and avoid decadence? Was there a limit beyond which women's influence might result in dehumanization? The Scottish Enlightenment's legacy for modernity emerges here as a two-faced Janus, an unresolved tension between universalism and hierarchy, progress and the limits of progress.

Author : Anna Plassart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107091764

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The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution by Anna Plassart Pdf

This book offers the first study of the Scottish Enlightenment reception and interpretation of the French Revolution.

Author : John M. Dixon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501703508

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The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden by John M. Dixon Pdf

Was there a conservative Enlightenment? Could a self-proclaimed man of learning and progressive science also have been an agent of monarchy and reaction? Cadwallader Colden (1688–1776), an educated Scottish emigrant and powerful colonial politician, was at the forefront of American intellectual culture in the mid-eighteenth century. While living in rural New York, he recruited family, friends, servants, and slaves into multiple scientific ventures and built a transatlantic network of contacts and correspondents that included Benjamin Franklin and Carl Linnaeus. Over several decades, Colden pioneered colonial botany, produced new theories of animal and human physiology, authored an influential history of the Iroquois, and developed bold new principles of physics and an engaging explanation of the cause of gravity.The Enlightenment of Cadwallader Colden traces the life and ideas of this fascinating and controversial "gentleman-scholar." John M. Dixon's lively and accessible account explores the overlapping ideological, social, and political worlds of this earliest of New York intellectuals. Colden and other learned colonials used intellectual practices to assert their gentility and establish their social and political superiority, but their elitist claims to cultural authority remained flimsy and open to widespread local derision. Although Colden, who governed New York as an unpopular Crown loyalist during the imperial crises of the 1760s and 1770s, was brutally lampooned by the New York press, his scientific work, which was published in Europe, raised the international profile of American intellectualism.

Author : Ronnie Young,Ralph McLean,Kenneth Simpson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611488012

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The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture by Ronnie Young,Ralph McLean,Kenneth Simpson Pdf

This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.

Author : Ronald C. Arnett
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780809338535

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Communication Ethics and Tenacious Hope by Ronald C. Arnett Pdf

"From Optimism to Tenacious Hope: Communication Ethics and the Scottish Enlightenment works with the Scottish Enlightenment as the intellectual and performative background for the illustration of the differentiation between optimism and tenacious hope"--

Author : Anand C. Chitnis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000435771

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The Scottish Enlightenment by Anand C. Chitnis Pdf

Originally published in 1976, this book discusses the relationship of the age of intellectual enlightenment in Scotland to the age of economic improvement and analyses the Scottish Enlightenment from a more sociological point of view. It describes the intense period of high intellectual endeavour and activity that took place in the resorts of the cultural social Scottish elite in 18th and early 19th Century Scotland. It discusses the crucial place of lawyers in 18th Century Scottish society and examines the intellectual features of the Scottish university system, charting the rise of the societies, clubs and other institutions such as the Encyclopaedia Britannica and The Edinburgh Review.

Author : Nigel Aston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198872887

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Enlightened Oxford by Nigel Aston Pdf

Enlightened Oxford aims to discern, establish, and clarify the multiplicity of connections between the University of Oxford, its members, and the world outside; to offer readers a fresh, contextualised sense of the University's role in the state, in society, and in relation to other institutions between the Williamite Revolution and the first decade of the nineteenth century, the era loosely describable (though not without much qualification) as England's ancien regime. Nigel Aston asks where Oxford fitted in to the broader social and cultural picture of the time, locating the University's importance in Church and state, and pondering its place as an institution that upheld religious entitlement in an ever-shifting intellectual world where national and confessional boundaries were under scrutiny. Enlightened Oxford is less an inside history than a consideration of an institutional presence and its place in the life of the country and further afield. While admitting the degree of corporate inertia to be found in the University, there was internal scope for members so inclined to be creative in their teaching, open new research lines, and be unapologetic Whigs rather than unrepentant Tories. For if Oxford was a seat of learning rooted in its past - and with an increasing antiquarian awareness of its inheritance - yet it had a surprising capacity for adaptation, a scope for intellectual and political pluralism that was not incompatible with enlightened values.

Author : Robert Anderson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780748679171

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Edinburgh History of Education in Scotland by Robert Anderson Pdf

This book investigates the origins and evolution of the main institutions of Scottish education, bringing together a range of scholars, each an expert on his or her own period, and with interests including - but also ranging beyond - the history of educat