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Author : Alexander Broadie,Craig Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108420709
Provides a comprehensive introduction to the full range of achievements of the Scottish thinkers who so profoundly influenced western culture.
Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521003237
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and other Scottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. In addition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe, America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.
Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857904980
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.
Author : Gerard Carruthers,Liam McIlvanney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521189361
A unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period.
Author : Knud Haakonssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521779243
Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith's system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Collectively, the essays take into account Smith's multiple contexts - Scottish, British, European, Atlantic; biographical, institutional, political, philosophical - and they draw on all of his works, including student notes from his lectures. Pluralistic in approach, the volume provides a contextualist history of Smith, as well as direct philosophical engagement with his ideas.
Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1841586404
The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the greatest intellectual and cultural movements that the world has ever seen. Its legacy in philosophy, history, science, music, art, architecture, economics, and many other disciplines cannot be overstated. The New Town of Edinburgh would be inconceivable without the doctrines of Enlightenment, equally so would the writings of Karl Marx or the US Constitution. To this day, the doctrines of Enlightenment are still quoted and misquoted. There can be few countries that have produced such a galaxy of talent in so small a compass. David Hume and Adam Smith merely stand as two of the best known.Yet this is the first book for the general reader to consider in its totality the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history, not simply the thoughts, ideas, and people who lived then, but also the creations that were animated by that thought. This is a book not simply about ideas but also about those ideas made flesh and about the new traditions thus created that still animate and inspire the world and the Scotland of today.
Author : Gerard Carruthers,Liam McIlvanney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1107485266
"Scotland's rich literary tradition is a product of its unique culture and landscape, as well as of its long history of inclusion and resistance to the United Kingdom. Scottish literature includes masterpieces in three languages - English, Scots and Gaelic - and global perspectives from the diaspora of Scots all over the world. This Companion offers a unique introduction, guide and reference work for students and readers of Scottish literature from the pre-medieval period to the post-devolution present. Essays focus on key periods and movements (the Scottish Enlightenment, Scottish Romanticism, the Scottish Renaissance), genres (the historical novel, Scottish Gothic, 'Tartan Noir') and major authors (Burns, Scott, Stevenson, MacDiarmid and Spark). A chronology and guides to further reading in each chapter make this an ideal overview of a national literature that continues to develop its own distinctive style"--
Author : David Fate Norton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1993-10-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521387108
David Hume is, arguably, the most important philosopher ever to have written in English. Although best known for his contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion, Hume also made substantial and influential contributions to psychology and the philosophy of mind, ethics, the philosophy of science, political and economic theory, political and social history, and, to a lesser extent, aesthetic and literary theory. All facets of Hume's output are discussed in this volume, the first genuinely comprehensive overview of his work. The picture that emerges is of a thinker who, though critical to the point of scepticism, was nonetheless able to build on that scepticism a profoundly important, and still viable, constructive philosophy.
Author : Terence Cuneo,René van Woudenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521012082
Reid in context / Alexander Broadie -- Thomas Reid and the culture of science / Paul Wood -- Reid on common sense / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- Reid's theory of perception / James Van Cleve / Reid's reply to the skeptic / John Greco -- Nativism and the nature of thought in Reid's account of the external world / Lorne Falkenstein -- Reid and the social operations of mind / C.A.J. Coady -- Reid on memory and the identity of persons / René Van Woudenberg -- Thomas Reid's theory of freedom and responsibility / William L. Rowe -- Reid's moral philosophy / Terence Cueno -- Reid's philosophy of art / Peter Kivy -- Reid's philosophy of religion / Dale Tuggy -- Reid's influence in Britain, Germany, France, and America / Benjamin W. Redekop
Author : James Buchan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061870606
In the early eighteenth century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economics—all of which continue to echo loudly today. Adam Smith penned The Wealth of Nations. James Boswell produced The Life of Samuel Johnson. Alongside them, pioneers such as David Hume, Robert Burns, James Hutton, and Sir Walter Scott transformed the way we understand our perceptions and feelings, sickness and health, relations between the sexes, the natural world, and the purpose of existence. In Crowded with Genius, James Buchan beautifully reconstructs the intimate geographic scale and boundless intellectual milieu of Enlightenment Edinburgh. With the scholarship of a historian and the elegance of a novelist, he tells the story of the triumph of this unlikely town and the men whose vision brought it into being.
Author : Jerome Neu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052137779X
This volume covers all the central topics of Freud's work, from sexuality to neurosis to morality, art, and culture.
Author : Rik Peels,René van Woudenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108476003
A comprehensive exploration of the historical development and philosophical importance of common-sense philosophy.
Author : Gregory Claeys
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828420
Since the publication of Thomas More's genre-defining work Utopia in 1516, the field of utopian literature has evolved into an ever-expanding domain. This Companion presents an extensive historical survey of the development of utopianism, from the publication of Utopia to today's dark and despairing tendency towards dystopian pessimism, epitomised by works such as George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. Chapters address the difficult definition of the concept of utopia, and consider its relation to science fiction and other literary genres. The volume takes an innovative approach to the major themes predominating within the utopian and dystopian literary tradition, including feminism, romance and ecology, and explores in detail the vexed question of the purportedly 'western' nature of the concept of utopia. The reader is provided with a balanced overview of the evolution and current state of a long-standing, rich tradition of historical, political and literary scholarship.
Author : Anna Plassart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107091764
This book offers the first study of the Scottish Enlightenment reception and interpretation of the French Revolution.
Author : Christopher J. Berry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 9781474415026
Upper-level undergraduate students, postgraduates and scholars working specifically on the Scottish Enlightenment and early modern political and economic thought more generally.