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Reading The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Mark R. M. Towsey
language : en
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Release Date : 2010
Reading The Scottish Enlightenment written by Mark R. M. Towsey and has been published by Brill Academic Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
The Handpress World explores the impact of the invention of printing by moveable type from the first experiments of the incunabula age through to the end of the eighteenth century. In this crucial period of book history the new technology both transformed established markets for scholarly and religious literature and found a new public through the rise of the pamphlet and later the newspaper. The series will investigate every aspect of this cultural transformation, from the promotion in print of the great intellectual movements of the day through to the birth of the public library.
The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Alexander Broadie
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
Release Date : 2001
The Scottish Enlightenment written by Alexander Broadie and has been published by Birlinn Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
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 Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Alexander Broadie
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2012-11-01
The Scottish Enlightenment written by Alexander Broadie and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with History categories.
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 Enlightenment And The Book
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Author : Richard B. Sher
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-09-15
The Enlightenment And The Book written by Richard B. Sher and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
The late eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of intellectual activity in Scotland by such luminaries as David Hume, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson, James Boswell, and Robert Burns. And the books written by these seminal thinkers made a significant mark during their time in almost every field of polite literature and higher learning throughout Britain, Europe, and the Americas. In this magisterial history, Richard B. Sher breaks new ground for our understanding of the Enlightenment and the forgotten role of publishing during that period. The Enlightenment and the Book seeks to remedy the common misperception that such classics as The Wealth of Nations and The Life of Samuel Johnson were written by authors who eyed their publishers as minor functionaries in their profession. To the contrary, Sher shows how the process of bookmaking during the late eighteenth-century involved a deeply complex partnership between authors and their publishers, one in which writers saw the book industry not only as pivotal in the dissemination of their ideas, but also as crucial to their dreams of fame and monetary gain. Similarly, Sher demonstrates that publishers were involved in the project of bookmaking in order to advance human knowledge as well as to accumulate profits. The Enlightenment and the Book explores this tension between creativity and commerce that still exists in scholarly publishing today. Lavishly illustrated and elegantly conceived, it will be must reading for anyone interested in the history of the book or the production and diffusion of Enlightenment thought.
Reading The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Mark Towsey
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2010-09-24
Reading The Scottish Enlightenment written by Mark Towsey and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-24 with History categories.
It has become commonplace in recent decades for scholars to identify in the books of the Scottish Enlightenment the intellectual origins of the modern world, but little attention has yet been paid to its impact on contemporary readers. Drawing on a range of innovatory methodologies associated with the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of the history of reading, this book explores the reception of books by David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson and Thomas Reid (amongst many others), assessing their impact on the lives, beliefs and habits of mind of readers across the social scale. In the process, the book offers a fascinating new perspective on the fundamental importance of personal reading experiences to the social history of the Enlightenment.
Social Theory Of The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Christopher J. Berry
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Social Theory Of The Scottish Enlightenment written by Christopher J. Berry and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
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.
Kant And The Scottish Enlightenment
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Author : Elizabeth Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-06-26
Kant And The Scottish Enlightenment written by Elizabeth Robinson and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-26 with History categories.
This book examines the influence of Hume, Reid, Smith, Hutcheson, and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers on Kant’s philosophy. It begins with the influence of these thinkers on Kant, then moves to an examination of the relationship between truth, freedom, and responsibility and its connection to Kant’s metaphysics and aesthetics.
America S Founding Secret
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Author : Robert W. Galvin
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2002
America S Founding Secret written by Robert W. Galvin and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
In this important work, the author illuminates how the founding fathers' motives, thoughts, and actions were framed by the Scottish Enlightenment.
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.
Scottish Town In The Age Of The Enlightenment 1740 1820
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Author : Bob Harris
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-31
Scottish Town In The Age Of The Enlightenment 1740 1820 written by Bob Harris 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 2014-07-31 with Social Science categories.
This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon personal documents, town council minutes, legal cases, inventories, travellers' tales, plans and drawings relating to some 30 Scots burghs of the Georgian period. It establishes a distinctive a