Share

Scotland and France in the Enlightenment

2004 History
Download Scotland and France in the Enlightenment PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2004
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 266/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Scotland and France in the Enlightenment by : Deidre Dawson

Download or read book Scotland and France in the Enlightenment written by Deidre Dawson. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

2018-07-20 History
Download Enlightenment in Scotland and France PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2018-07-20
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 017/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Enlightenment in Scotland and France by : Mark L. Hulliung

Download or read book Enlightenment in Scotland and France written by Mark L. Hulliung. This book was released on 2018-07-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Enlightenment in Scotland and France

2018-07-20 History
Download Enlightenment in Scotland and France PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2018-07-20
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 875/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Enlightenment in Scotland and France by : Mark Hulliung

Download or read book Enlightenment in Scotland and France written by Mark Hulliung. This book was released on 2018-07-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

2012-11-05 History
Download Agreeable Connexions PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2012-11-05
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 087/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Agreeable Connexions by : Alexander Broadie

Download or read book Agreeable Connexions written by Alexander Broadie. This book was released on 2012-11-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

2015 Electronic books
Download Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution PDF Online Free

Author :
Release : 2015
Genre : Electronic books
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 067/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK


Book Synopsis Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution by : Anna Plassart

Download or read book Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution written by Anna Plassart. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

You may also like...