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The Scottish Enlightenment
Essays in Reinterpretation
Edited by Paul Wood
A collection of ten specially commissioned essays addressing five themes central to any study of the Scottish Enlightenment: (1) the place (both physical and cognitive) of science and medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment; (ii) the institutionalisation of enlightenment in the universities; (iii) the cultivation of the different branches of 'the science of man' in the Scottish Enlightenment; (iv) the national and international contexts of enlightenment thought in Scotland; and (v) the historiography of the Scottish Enlightenment. Taking up these themes, the editor and contributors explore facets of enlightened culture in Scotland which have not been given their due in the literature, and reassess current interpretations of various aspects of the Scottish Enlightenment specifically and its relation to the European Enlightenment in general. Special emphasis is given to such major Scottish thinkers as Francis Hutcheson, George Campbell, Thomas Reid, and David Hume.
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DETAILS
14 b/w illustrations
412 pages
Size: 9 x 6 nn
13 digit ISBN: 9781580460651
Binding: Hardback
First published: 15/Nov/2000
Price: 75.00 USD / 40.00 GBP
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Series: Rochester Studies in Philosophy
Subject: Philosophy
BIC class: AVH
STATUS: Available
Details updated on 05/01/2009
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Contents
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Introduction: Dugald Stewart and the Invention of "the Scottish Enlightenment"
Paul Wood
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The Scottish Contribution to the Enlightenment
John Robertson
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Toward a Historical Geography of Enlightenment in Scotland
Charles Withers
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Science and Medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Lessons of Book History
Richard Sher
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"A Scotsman on the Make": The Career of Alexander Stuart
Anita Guerrini
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Materialism and the Life Soul in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Physiology
John Wright
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The Infirmary of the Glasgow Town's Hospital: Patient Care, 1733-1800
Fiona Macdonald
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Hutcheson's Theodicy: The Argument and the Contexts of [I]A System of Moral Philosophy[/I]
James Moore
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The Dating of Hume's Manuscripts Appendix to Figures
M. A. Stewart
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Rude Religion: The Psychology of Polytheism in the Scottish Enlightenment
Christopher Berry
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The Natural Theology of Lord Kames
Ian Ross
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George Campbell, Thomas Reid, and Universals of Language
Alexander Broadie
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Reviews
A rich volume...historiographically sophisticated and generous...This is mandatory starting point for anyone embarking on Scottish Enlightenment studies. BULLETIN FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Splendid collection, an appropriate testament to the richness of Emerson's scholarship. It offers a set of essays that each stands on its own but when taken together provide a superb exposition of leading themes in the study of the Scottish Enlightenment over the past few decades. 18C SCOTLAND Handsome collection of essays... an excellent choice for a course on the Scottish Enlightenment... explores many of the issues that inform current historiography. SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE
[A] fine collection of essays. MEDICAL HISTORY, July 2003, 47 (3)
...Wide-ranging and authoritative essays...His readings form an important contribution to the history of the novel, narrative theory, and the gender of writing. ASSOC FOR SCOTTISH LITERARY STUDIES
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