| The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680 1760 Contributor(s): Robertson, John (Author), John, Robertson (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521847877 ISBN-13: 9780521847872 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $147.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Modern - General - History | Europe - Italy - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 941.107 |
| LCCN: 2005005776 |
| Series: Ideas in Context |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6" W x 9" (1.91 lbs) 476 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 17th Century - Cultural Region - Italy - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Cultural Region - Scottish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Robertson, John: - JOHN ROBERTSON is University Lecturer in Modern History and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. |