The Scottish Enlightenment : the historical age of the historical nation

Author(s)

• Broadie, Alexander

Bibliographic Information

The Scottish Enlightenment : the historical age of the historical nation

Alexander Broadie

Birlinn, 2007

Note

Originally published: Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2001

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science, philosophy, history, economics, and other disciplines also, were immense; and its influence has hardly if at all been dimmed in the intervening two centuries. This book, written for the general reader, considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a wondrous moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas - men such as David Hume and Adam Smith, who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues.

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Details

• NCID: BA88615397
• ISBN:
  • 9781841586403
• LCCN: 2008371538
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Edinburgh
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 240 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DA812
  • DC22 : 941.107
  • DC : 941
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Scotland -- History -- 18th century
  • LCSH : Enlightenment -- Scotland