Academic Patronage In The Scottish Enlightenment
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Academic Patronage In The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Roger L. Emerson
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-29
Academic Patronage In The Scottish Enlightenment written by Roger L. Emerson and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-29 with Education categories.
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.
Patrons Of Enlightenment
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Author : Edward Andrew
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Patrons Of Enlightenment written by Edward Andrew and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Church And University In The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Richard B. Sher
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 1985
Church And University In The Scottish Enlightenment written by Richard B. Sher and has been published by Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Edinburgh (Scotland) categories.
The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Anand C. Chitnis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-10-12
The Scottish Enlightenment written by Anand C. Chitnis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
The Glasgow Enlightenment
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Author : Andrew Hook
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2001-01-01
The Glasgow Enlightenment written by Andrew Hook and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with History categories.
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.
Idea Of Commercial Society In The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Christopher J Berry
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-08
Idea Of Commercial Society In The Scottish Enlightenment written by Christopher J Berry and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-08 with Business & Economics categories.
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.
Essays On Hume Smith And The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Christopher J. Berry
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-10
Essays On Hume Smith And The Scottish Enlightenment written by Christopher J. Berry and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-10 with Enlightenment categories.
Upper-level undergraduate students, postgraduates and scholars working specifically on the Scottish Enlightenment and early modern political and economic thought more generally.
The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad
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Author : Janet Starkey
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-03-20
The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad written by Janet Starkey and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-20 with History categories.
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.
Essays On David Hume Medical Men And The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Roger L. Emerson
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-13
Essays On David Hume Medical Men And The Scottish Enlightenment written by Roger L. Emerson and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with History categories.
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.
The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Silvia Sebastiani
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-02-20
The Scottish Enlightenment written by Silvia Sebastiani and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-20 with History categories.
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.