The Glasgow Enlightenment

Author : Andrew Hook,Richard B. Sher
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788854849

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The Glasgow Enlightenment by Andrew Hook,Richard B. Sher Pdf

The Glasgow Enlightenment is widely regarded as the first book to explore the nature and accomplishments of the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Glasgow in a comprehensive manner. In addition to a general introduction by the editors, there are seven chapters devoted to Glasgow University professors, such as Adam Smith, Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, John Millar, William Leechman, and John Anderson. At a time when the Glasgow economy was booming in the strength of its trade with America, these and other Glasgow men of science and learning were making major contributions to the European world of philosophy, law, political economy, natural philosophy, medicine, and religious toleration. There are also five chapters on other individuals and topics, including the physician and author John Moore, James Boswell during his student days, images of Glasgow in popular poetry, and Popular party clergymen who challenged the dominant views of the academic Enlightenment with an alternative vision of liberty and piety. This edition features a new bibliographical preface by Richard B. Sher that discusses the substantial secondary literature on eighteenth-century Glasgow and the Glasgow Enlightenment since the original publication of this book more than a quarter of a century ago.

Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,5 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.

Author : Andrew Hook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1414670841

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The Glasgow Enlightenment by Andrew Hook Pdf

Author : Paul Wood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 1580460658

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The Scottish Enlightenment by Paul Wood Pdf

Despite the recent surge of scholarship on the Scottish Enlightenment, no single volume has attempted to take stock of the field since the 1980s. The Scottish Enlightenment: Essays in Reinterpretation brings together essays by an international group of experts who are all well known for their publications on eighteenth-century Scotland. Individually, the essays cover a wide range of topics, from medicine to moral philosophy, and each chapter expands our knowledge of the Enlightenment in Scotland by providing new information or a fresh look at significant questions which have aroused controversy in the past. Readers will find the latest research on the culture of print in the Scottish Enlightenment; the medical world of eighteenth-century Scotland; the relations between the Scottish literati and Enlightened savants in England and Europe; geography and the rise of public science in Scotland; the philosophical systemes of Francis Hutcheson, George Campbell, and Thomas Reid; the manuscripts of David Hume; and the historical works of Dugald Stewart. In their different ways, the essays additionally explore some of the most important historiographical issues associated with the study of the Scottish Enlightenment. Readers are introduced to debates over the very definition of the term 'the Scottish Enlightenment'; the coherence of the 'school' of Scottish philosophy; the Scottish Enlightenment and the making of Scottish identity; the roles of science, medicine, moral philosophy, and political economy in enlightened culture; and the cosmopolitan character of the Enlightenment. This volume thus enriches our picture not only of the Scottish Enlightenment, but of the Enlightenment in general.

Author : A. Hook,Professor Andrew Hook, Professor
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0748602992

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Glasgow and the Enlightenment by A. Hook,Professor Andrew Hook, Professor Pdf

Author : Ronnie Young,Ralph McLean,Kenneth Simpson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Richard B. Sher,Jeffrey R. Smitten
Publisher : Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018976780

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Scotland and America in the Age of the Enlightenment by Richard B. Sher,Jeffrey R. Smitten Pdf

"In the standard accounts of the American Enlightenment, Scottish influences on American culture are often recognised but usually limited to the effects of Scottish Common Sense Philosophy from the 1790s onwards. In the standard accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment, America's influence on Scottish thought is given little attention. Scholarship on both Enlightenments generally neglects religion, music, architecture and other important areas of culture. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to the rich and varied Scottish-American cultural relations in the eighteenth century. There are three broad topics: John Witherspoon as a bridge between evangelical religion and the Enlightenment during the era of the American Revolution; the respective influences of American affairs on Scottish thinkers, such as David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson and aristocratic 'country' Whigs, and of Scottish thought and rhetoric on the American Founding Fathers; and the Scottish component in the culture of late eighteenth-century Philadelphia, including philosophy and literature, medical education, music and architecture"--Back cover.

Author : Christopher Berry
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748673865

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Social Theory of the Scottish Enlightenment by Christopher Berry Pdf

David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, Lord Kames, John Millar, James Dunbar and Gilbert Stuart were at the heart of Scottish Enlightenment thought. This introductory survey offers the student a clear, accessible interpretation and synthesis of the social thought of these historically significant thinkers. Organised thematically, it takes the student through their accounts of social institutions, their critique of individualism, their methodology, their views of progress and of moral and cultural values. By taking human sociality as their premise, the book shows how they produced important analyses of historical change, politics and morality, together with an assessment of their own commercial society.

Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 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.

Author : Roger G. Emerson
Publisher : Zeticula
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1846220602

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Neglected Scots by Roger G. Emerson Pdf

The Scottish Enlightenment is often perceived as an Edinburgh phenomenon, centred on moral-political-economic questions and on the philosophical and historical interests of David Hume and his friends among the polite literati. In this new collection, the focus is squarely on eighteenth-century Glasgow, a thriving trading and industrial centre with a fine University, and on Women. The Glasgow sections look at three groups of men - the city's early virtuosi; members of the Glasgow Literary Society; and a largely neglected group of practical-minded Evangelicals, Professor John Anderson among them. The section on Scottish women of the century aims not simply to portray 'notable and accomplished' individuals, but to examine how women figured in and related to the Scottish Enlightenment as seen both as an historic period and in the context of the development of Scottish thought. There is an extensive bibliography, plus notes and indexes.

Author : Alexander Broadie
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 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.

Author : Alexander Broadie,Craig Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108420709

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The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment by Alexander Broadie,Craig Smith Pdf

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the full range of achievements of the Scottish thinkers who so profoundly influenced western culture.

Author : Mark Towsey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004193512

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Reading the Scottish Enlightenment by Mark Towsey Pdf

Drawing on a range of methodologies associated with the history of reading, this book explores the reception of the Scottish Enlightenment, assessing the impact that major texts had on the lives, beliefs and habits of mind of contemporary readers.

Author : David B. Wilson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780271035253

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Seeking Nature's Logic by David B. Wilson Pdf

"Studies the path of natural philosophy (i.e., physics) from Isaac Newton through Scotland into the nineteenth-century background to the modern revolution in physics. Examines how the history of science has been influenced by John Robison and other notable intellectuals of the Scottish Enlightenment"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Robert W. Galvin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0742522806

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America's Founding Secret by Robert W. Galvin Pdf

In this important work, the author illuminates how the founding fathers' motives, thoughts, and actions were framed by the Scottish Enlightenment.