The Scottish Enlightenment : the historical age of the historical nation
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The Scottish Enlightenment : the historical age of the historical nation
Birlinn, 2007
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Originally published: Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2001
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index
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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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