The Case for the Enlightenment: Scotland and Naples 1680-1760
(Part of the Ideas in Context Series and Ideas in Context Series)
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Challenging the recent tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521035724
ISBN13:9780521035729
Release Date:May 2007
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:476 Pages
Weight:1.70 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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