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Scotland and France in the Enlightenment

Author : Deidre Dawson,Pierre Morère
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0838755267

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Scotland and France in the Enlightenment by Deidre Dawson,Pierre Morère Pdf

The Scottish and French Enlightenments are arguably the two intellectual movements of the eighteenth century that were most influential in shaping the modern age. The essays in Scotland and France in the Enlightenment explore a wide range of topics of historical relevance to eighteenth-century scholars, while engaging students with broad interdisciplinary interests in the humanities and social sciences. The ways in which Scottish philosophy influenced French painting, how the Encyclopaedia Britannica presented the French Revolution, the impact of Macpherson's Ossian on the development of French Romanticism, the moral education of children, the relation between reflection and perception in the arts and in moral life, humankind's relationship to other animals, and the links between violence and imagination, fear and sanity, are only some of the topics covered. This challenging selection of essays comparing Scottish and French enlightenment views of natural history, jurisprudence, moral philosophy, history, and art history complicates and enriches the notion of Enlightenment, and will inaugurate a new field of Franco-Scottish studies.

Enlightenment in Scotland and France

Author : Mark L. Hulliung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429847011

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Enlightenment in Scotland and France by Mark L. Hulliung Pdf

Enlightenment in Scotland and France: Studies in Political Thought provides comparative analysis of the Scottish and French Enlightenments. Studies of the two Enlightenments have previously focused on the transnational, their story one of continuity between Scottish intellectuals and French philosophes and of a mutual commitment to combat fanaticism in all its forms. This book contends that what has been missing, by and large, from the scholarly literature is the comparative analysis that underscores the contrasts as well as the similarities of the Enlightenments in Scotland and France. This book shows that, although the similarities of "enlightened" political thought in the two countries are substantial, the differences are also remarkable and stand out in culminating relief in the Scottish and French reactions to the American Revolution. Mark Hulliung argues that it was 1776, not 1789, that was the moment when the spokespersons for Enlightenment in Scotland and France parted company.

Agreeable Connexions

Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781907909085

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Agreeable Connexions by Alexander Broadie Pdf

Scotland has played an immense role in European high culture through the centuries, and among its cultural links none have been greater than those with France. This book shows that the links with France stretch back deep into the Middle Ages, and continue without a break into the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment. In one way or another all of the major figures of the Scottish Enlightenment were in close relation to France, and though this book attends to the broad picture of the cultural links binding the two countries, the focus is on certain individuals, especially David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson, and certain of their French counterparts such as Montesquieu, Madame de Condorcet, Victor Cousin and Theodore Jouffroy. Prominent among the areas under discussion are scepticism and common sense, morality and the role of sympathy, and civil society and the question of what constitutes good citizenship. The book should appeal to all with an interest in the broad sweep of Scottish cultural history and more particularly in the country's Age of Enlightenment and its links with France.

Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution

Author : Anna Plassart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1316323722

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Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution by Anna Plassart Pdf

Historians of ideas have traditionally discussed the significance of the French Revolution through the prism of several major interpretations, including the commentaries of Burke, Tocqueville and Marx. This book argues that the Scottish Enlightenment offered an alternative and equally powerful interpretative framework for the Revolution, which focused on the transformation of the polite, civilised moeurs that had defined the 'modernity' analysed by Hume and Smith in the eighteenth century. The Scots observed what they understood as a military- and democracy-led transformation of European modern morals and concluded that the real historical significance of the Revolution lay in the transformation of warfare, national feelings and relations between states, war and commerce that characterised the post-revolutionary international order. This book recovers the Scottish philosophers' powerful discussion of the nature of post-revolutionary modernity and shows that it is essential to our understanding of nineteenth-century political thought.

The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution

Author : Anna Plassart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,7 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.

The Scottish People and the French Revolution

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317315308

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The Scottish People and the French Revolution by Bob Harris Pdf

Presents a study of the political culture of Scotland in the 1790s. This book compares the emergence of 'the people' as a political force, with popular political movements in England and Ireland. It analyses Scottish responses to the French Revolution across the political spectrum; explaining Loyalist as well as Radical opinions and organisations.

Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062852929

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Scotland in the Age of the French Revolution by Bob Harris Pdf

"Despite the profusion of work in recent decades on Irish and English politics in the French revolutionary era, Scotland in this period remains largely neglected, barely featuring in some recent books ostensibly on the history of Britain. The essays in this volume, written by scholars from Britain and Ireland, will help fill this gap. While not presenting a single, uniform view, several of them at the very least cast doubt on the notion of a Scotland in this period of adamantine stability and begin to recover some powerful dissident voices in the political exchanges of the 1790s. They show that the stability discerned in retrospect by some historians was not what struck most contemporaries who were witness to the successive, often alarming strains and challenges of the period which served cumulatively to shatter any complacency which existed about the terms of elite rule and authority in a society undergoing profound and rapid change."--BOOK JACKET.

Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680–1820

Author : Douglas J Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317318194

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Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680–1820 by Douglas J Hamilton Pdf

The essays in this collection examine religion, politics and commerce in Scotland during a time of crisis and turmoil. Contributors look at the effect of the Union on Scottish trade and commerce, the Scottish role in tobacco and sugar plantations, Robert Burns’s early poetry on his planned emigration to Jamaica and Scottish anti-abolitionists.

The Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857904980

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The Scottish Enlightenment by Alexander Broadie Pdf

The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science, philosophy, history, economics, and other disciplines also, were immense; and its influence has hardly if at all been dimmed in the intervening two centuries. This book, written for the general reader, considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a wondrous moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas – men such as David Hume and Adam Smith, who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues.

The First Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192537591

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The First Scottish Enlightenment by Kelsey Jackson Williams Pdf

Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead, it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a 'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history, pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars, readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two principal religious minorities—Episcopalians and Catholics—in the growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.

The Enlightenment in Scotland

Author : Jean-François Dunyach,Ann Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 0729411664

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The Enlightenment in Scotland by Jean-François Dunyach,Ann Thomson Pdf

What was the Scottish Enlightenment? Long since ignored or sidelined, it is now a controversial topic - damned by some as a conservative movement objectively allied to the enemies of enlightenment, placed centre stage by others as the archetype of what is meant by 'Enlightenment'. In this book leading experts reassess the issue by exploring both the eighteenth-century intellectual developments taking place within Scotland and the Scottish contribution to the Enlightenment as a whole. The Scottish experience during this period forms the underlying theme of early chapters, with contributors examining the central philosophy of the 'science of man', the reality of 'applied enlightenment' in Scotland, and the Presbyterian hostility to the spread of 'heretical' ideas. Moving beyond Scotland's borders, contributors in later chapters examine the wider recognition of Scotland's intellectual activity, both within Europe and across the Atlantic. Through a series of case studies authors assess the engagement of European intellectuals with Scottish thinkers, looking at the French interpretation of Adam Smith's notion of sympathy, divergent approaches to the writing of history in Scotland and Germany, and the variety of Neapolitan responses to Scottish thought; the final chapter analyses the links between the 'moderate Enlightenment' in Scotland and America. Through these innovative studies this book provides a rich and nuanced understanding of Enlightenment thought in Scotland and its impact in Europe and North America, highlighting the importance of placing the national context in a transnational perspective.

The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture

Author : Ronnie Young,Ralph McLean,Kenneth Simpson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,9 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.

The First Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Kelsey Jackson-Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198809692

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The First Scottish Enlightenment by Kelsey Jackson-Williams Pdf

Traditional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment present the half-century or so before 1750 as, at best, a not-yet fully realised precursor to the era of Hume and Smith, at worst, a period of superstition and religious bigotry. This is the first book-length study to systematically challenge that notion. Instead, it argues that the era between approximately 1680 and 1745 was a 'First' Scottish Enlightenment, part of the continent-wide phenomenon of early Enlightenment and led by the Jacobites, Episcopalians, and Catholics of north-eastern Scotland. It makes this argument through an intensive study of the dramatic changes in historiographical practice which took place in Scotland during this era, showing how the documentary scholarship of Jean Mabillon and the Maurists was eagerly received and rapidly developed in Scottish historical circles, resulting in the wholesale demolition of the older, Humanist myths of Scottish origins and their replacement with the foundations of our modern understanding of early Scottish history. This volume accordingly challenges many of the truisms surrounding seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Scottish history, pushing back against notions of pre-Enlightenment Scotland as backward, insular, and intellectually impoverished and mapping a richly polymathic, erudite, and transnational web of scholars, readers, and polemicists. It highlights the enduring cultural links with France and argues for the central importance of Scotland's two principal religious minorities--Episcopalians and Catholics--in the growth of Enlightenment thinking. As such, it makes a major intervention in the intellectual and cultural histories of Scotland, early modern Europe, and the Enlightenment itself.

The Scottish Enlightenment

Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060813196

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The Scottish Enlightenment by Alexander Broadie Pdf

The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science, philosophy, history, economics, and other disciplines also, were immense; and its influence has hardly if at all been dimmed in the intervening two centuries.This book, written for the general reader, considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a wondrous moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas - men such as David Hume and Adam Smith, who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues.

Henry Home, Lord Kames, and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Study in National Character and in the History of Ideas

Author : William C. Lehmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401575829

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Henry Home, Lord Kames, and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Study in National Character and in the History of Ideas by William C. Lehmann Pdf

The purpose of the present study is to present the life and work and thought of a remarkable pioneering figure on the Scottish scene over the middle half, broadly, of the eighteenth century, in their dynamic relations with that most extraordinary intellectual awakening and scientific, edu cational, literary and religious development of his time generally known as the "Scottish Enlightenment. " That movement in thought and culture was indeed in more ways than one a unique phenomenon in the history of western culture, comparable, in its own manner and measure, as we shall attempt to point out later, with such history-making movements or epochs as the Age of Pericles in Greece, the Augustan Age in Rome, the Renaissance movement in Italy and Western Europe generally, the up-surge both in science and in letters in England in the seventeenth century, and the contemporary movement in France associated with the Encyclopedists. This Scottish Enlightenment, often also spoken of as the "Awakening of Scotland," was of course more than a movement merely on the intel lectual and cultural level. It had also political bearings and was rather directly conditioned by events and changes in the political arena, begin ning with the Union with England in 1707; and even more directly was it accompanied and conditioned by social and economic changes which were in a short span of time to transform the face of this far-northern country almost beyond recognition.