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The case for the Enlightenment : = Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760 /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The case for the Enlightenment :/ John Robertson.
Reminder of title:	Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760 /
Author:	Robertson, John,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 455 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 May 2016).
Subject:	Enlightenment. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490705
ISBN:	9780511490705 (ebook)

The case for the Enlightenment : = Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760 /
Robertson, John,1951-

The case for the Enlightenment :Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760 /John Robertson. - 1 online resource (xii, 455 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Ideas in context ;73. - Ideas in context ;75..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 May 2016).

The case for the Enlightenment -- Scotland and Naples in 1700 -- The intellectual worlds of Naples and Scotland 1680-c.1725 -- The predicament of 'kingdoms governed as provinces' -- Vico, after Bayle -- Hume, after Bayle and Mandeville -- The advent of Enlightenment: political economy in Naples and Scotland 1730-1760 -- Conclusion : the Enlightenment vindicated?

The Case for the Enlightenment is a comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and in Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, the distinguished intellectual historian John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations. Before 1700, Scotland and Naples faced a bleak future as backward, provincial kingdoms in a Europe of aggressive commercial states. Yet by 1760, Scottish and Neapolitan thinkers were in the van of those advocating the cause of Enlightenment by means of political economy. By studying the social and institutional contexts of intellectual life in the two countries, and the currents of thought promoted within them, The Case for the Enlightenment explains this transformation. John Robertson pays particular attention to the greatest thinkers in each country, David Hume and Giambattista Vico.

ISBN: 9780511490705 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

561337
Enlightenment.

LC Class. No.: B802 / .R62 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 941.107

The case for the Enlightenment : = Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760 /
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