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The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution (Paperback)
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The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution (Paperback)
Series: Ideas in Context
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Historians of ideas have traditionally discussed the significance
of the French Revolution through the prism of several major
interpretations, including the commentaries of Burke, Tocqueville
and Marx. This book argues that the Scottish Enlightenment offered
an alternative and equally powerful interpretative framework for
the Revolution, which focused on the transformation of the polite,
civilised moeurs that had defined the 'modernity' analysed by Hume
and Smith in the eighteenth century. The Scots observed what they
understood as a military- and democracy-led transformation of
European modern morals and concluded that the real historical
significance of the Revolution lay in the transformation of
warfare, national feelings and relations between states, war and
commerce that characterised the post-revolutionary international
order. This book recovers the Scottish philosophers' powerful
discussion of the nature of post-revolutionary modernity and shows
that it is essential to our understanding of nineteenth-century
political thought.
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