Author: Alexander Broadie
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 1907909087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Scotland has played an immense role in European high culture through the centuries, and among its cultural links none have been greater than those with France. This book shows that the links with France stretch back deep into the Middle Ages, and continue without a break into the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment. In one way or another all of the major figures of the Scottish Enlightenment were in close relation to France, and though this book attends to the broad picture of the cultural links binding the two countries, the focus is on certain individuals, especially David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson, and certain of their French counterparts such as Montesquieu, Madame de Condorcet, Victor Cousin and Theodore Jouffroy. Prominent among the areas under discussion are scepticism and common sense, morality and the role of sympathy, and civil society and the question of what constitutes good citizenship. The book should appeal to all with an interest in the broad sweep of Scottish cultural history and more particularly in the country's Age of Enlightenment and its links with France.
Agreeable Connexions
Author: Alexander Broadie
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 1907909087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Scotland has played an immense role in European high culture through the centuries, and among its cultural links none have been greater than those with France. This book shows that the links with France stretch back deep into the Middle Ages, and continue without a break into the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment. In one way or another all of the major figures of the Scottish Enlightenment were in close relation to France, and though this book attends to the broad picture of the cultural links binding the two countries, the focus is on certain individuals, especially David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson, and certain of their French counterparts such as Montesquieu, Madame de Condorcet, Victor Cousin and Theodore Jouffroy. Prominent among the areas under discussion are scepticism and common sense, morality and the role of sympathy, and civil society and the question of what constitutes good citizenship. The book should appeal to all with an interest in the broad sweep of Scottish cultural history and more particularly in the country's Age of Enlightenment and its links with France.
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 1907909087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Scotland has played an immense role in European high culture through the centuries, and among its cultural links none have been greater than those with France. This book shows that the links with France stretch back deep into the Middle Ages, and continue without a break into the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment. In one way or another all of the major figures of the Scottish Enlightenment were in close relation to France, and though this book attends to the broad picture of the cultural links binding the two countries, the focus is on certain individuals, especially David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson, and certain of their French counterparts such as Montesquieu, Madame de Condorcet, Victor Cousin and Theodore Jouffroy. Prominent among the areas under discussion are scepticism and common sense, morality and the role of sympathy, and civil society and the question of what constitutes good citizenship. The book should appeal to all with an interest in the broad sweep of Scottish cultural history and more particularly in the country's Age of Enlightenment and its links with France.
The Mourner Comforted
Author: James Abercrombie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consolation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Consolation
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Lost Friends Found Again; Or, Heavenly Solace for Christian Mourners ...
Author: Edward Shepherd Smedley
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution
Author: Anna Plassart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316300323
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316300323
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
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.
The State Records of North Carolina
Author: North Carolina
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
The State Records of North Carolina: 1782-1784, with supplement, 1771-1782
Author: North Carolina
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
The Colonial Records of North Carolina
Author: North Carolina
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
The State Records of North Carolina: 1780-1781
Author: North Carolina
Publisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description
Travels Through Germany, Containing Observations on Customs, Manners, Religion, Government, Commerce, Arts, and Antiquities. With a Particular Account of the Courts of Mecklenburg. In a Series of Letters to a Friend (etc.)
Author: Thomas Nugent
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Germany
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752574445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752574445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.