| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 455 pages) |
| Series |
Ideas in context ; 73 |
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Ideas in context ; 73
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; chapter 1 The case for the Enlightenment; chapter 2 Scotland and Naples in 1700; chapter 3 The intellectual worlds of Naples and Scotland 1680-c.1725; chapter 4 The predicament of 'kingdoms governed as provinces'; chapter 5 Vico, after Bayle; chapter 6 Hume, after Bayle and Mandeville; chapter 7 The advent of Enlightenment: political economy in Naples and Scotland 1730-1760; Conclusion: the Enlightenment vindicated?; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
An innovative and ambitious comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and Naples. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-438) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Hume, David. A treatise of human nature. swd |
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Vico, Giambattista. Principi di una scienza nuova. swd |
| Subject |
Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment -- Scotland
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Enlightenment -- Italy -- Naples
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Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
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HISTORY.
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Enlightenment
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Wirtschaftstheorie
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Aufklärung
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Italy -- Naples
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Scotland
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Schottland
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Königreich Neapel
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0511132840 |
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9780511132841 |
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9780511490705 |
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0511490704 |
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9780521847872 |
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0521847877 |
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9780521035729 |
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0521035724 |
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