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The Case for The Enlightenment - Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 (Hardcover, New)
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The Case for The Enlightenment - Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Ideas in Context
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The Case for the Enlightenment is a comparative study of the
emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and in Naples. Challenging
the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century
Europe into multiple Enlightenments, the distinguished intellectual
historian 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. By studying the social
and institutional contexts of intellectual life in the two
countries, and the currents of thought promoted within them, The
Case for the Enlightenment explains this transformation. John
Robertson pays particular attention to the greatest thinkers in
each country, David Hume and Giambattista Vico.
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