The Enlightenment and the Book: Scottish Authors and Their Publishers in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and AmericaUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.09.2008 - 842 Seiten 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. |
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... Political , 3rd ed . , 1748 286 4.2 . Kincaid & Bell's shop , Edinburgh 317 4.3 . Title pages in the first three editions of Adam Ferguson's Essay , 1767-68 319 5.1 . William Strahan by an unknown artist 328 5.2 . Thomas Cadell engraved ...
... political culture with that found in “some other kingdoms of Europe,” where “illiberal prejudices” prevailed, the preface continued: “Among us, learning is no longer confined within the schools of the philosophers, or the courts of the ...
... political movement.40 Another strategy, adopted by Muthu among others, has been to plural- ize the Enlightenment and to qualify references accordingly. We do well to speak of “English, Arminian, Parisian” and Scottish Enlightenments ...
... political economy , and the historical development of human societies . * 44 important fields of enlightened intellectual inquiry for the sake of. If there is a common denominator in these approaches , it is that all of them assume a ...
... political conservatives. These core values were often promoted self-consciously by individuals and groups whose ideas and activities were sufficiently prevalent to set the tone for the age. Yet these values were not “everything and ...
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25 | |
41 | |
Part II Publishing the Scottish Enlightenment in London and Edinburgh | 263 |
Part III Reprinting the Scottish Enlightenment in Dublin and Philadelphia | 441 |
Tables | 611 |
Bibliography | 709 |
Index | 757 |
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