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The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680 - 1760

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Challenging the recent tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, 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. Robertson pays particular attention to the greatest thinkers in each country, David Hume and Giambattista Vico.

Language: English

Pages: 476

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: May 01, 2007

ISBN: 0521035724

ISBN 13: 9780521035729

The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680 - 1760

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Challenging the recent tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, 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. Robertson pays particular attention to the greatest thinkers in each country, David Hume and Giambattista Vico.

Language: English

Pages: 476

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release: May 01, 2007

ISBN: 0521035724

ISBN 13: 9780521035729

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