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Ideas in Context Ser.: Case for the Enlightenment : Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 by John Robertson (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521847877
ISBN-139780521847872
eBay Product ID (ePID)45328363
Product Key Features
Number of Pages476 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameCase for the Enlightenment : Scotland and Naples 1680-1760
Publication Year2005
SubjectEurope / Great Britain / Scotland, History & Theory, World / European
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, History
AuthorJohn Robertson
SeriesIdeas in Context Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight30.8 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2005-005776
Reviews"...one of the most profound and illuminating studies in comparative historical analysis and political thought published in recent decades. Robertson has made an excellent use of the literature. But it is the idea, the imagination of the work, that is even more impressive." -Filippo Sabetti, McGill University, Canadian Journal of Political Science, "John Robertson is very aware of these debates and is, in this book, a significant contributor to them. Read the first and the last chapter here, and one would have a very sound insight into the varied contours of recent Enlightenment scholarship. Take the five central chapters, and one has an informed and scholarly account of the nature and making of political economy as an Enlightenment discourse, most acutely in Naples and in Scotland whose provincial status and local setting is examined even as Robertson traces the connections that sustained that specialized Enlightenment above and beneath the "nations" in question. Taken together, we have a book that offers detailed scrutiny of one theme of the Enlightenment, a clear statement of "the existence of Enlightenment as a coherent, unified intellectual movement of the eighteenth century, whose adherents engaged in original enquiry into the fundamentals of human sociability, and were committed to the cause of bettering the human condition in this world without regard to the next" (p. 47), and a study of the importance of local context, individually and in comparison, to the explanation of political economy and to his view of Enlightenment." -Charles W. J. Withers, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, H-NET, 'John Robertson's excellent new book presents a sustained comparison of intellectual life in Naples and Scotland … in order - among other things - to argue against Israel's revisionist periodisation.' The Philosophers' Magazine, 'John Robertson's excellent new book presents a sustained comparison of intellectual life in Naples and Scotland... in order - among other things - to argue against Israel's revisionist periodisation.' The Philosophers' Magazine, "[A] closely argued, copiously researched, and original work of scholarship." 18th Century Scotland, James Moore, Concordia University, "...one of the most profound and illuminating studies in comparative historical analysis and political thought published in recent decades. Robertson has made an excellent use of the literature. But it is the idea, the imagination of the work, that is even more impressive." Canadian Journal of Political Science, Filippo Sabetti, McGill University, "Robertson's book is careful, learned, and elegantly structured; he combines these substantial merits with a generous sense of objections that might be made to his argument, which he answers patiently and plausibly...Robertson's commanding book gives us an utterly fresh example of the problems that comparative history should address, and how to address them." -Paul Cheney, University of Chicago, Journal of Modern History, "John Robertson is very aware of these debates and is, in this book, a significant contributor to them. Read the first and the last chapter here, and one would have a very sound insight into the varied contours of recent Enlightenment scholarship. Take the five central chapters, and one has an informed and scholarly account of the nature and making of political economy as an Enlightenment discourse, most acutely in Naples and in Scotland whose provincial status and local setting is examined even as Robertson traces the connections that sustained that specialized Enlightenment above and beneath the "nations" in question. Taken together, we have a book that offers detailed scrutiny of one theme of the Enlightenment, a clear statement of "the existence of Enlightenment as a coherent, unified intellectual movement of the eighteenth century, whose adherents engaged in original enquiry into the fundamentals of human sociability, and were committed to the cause of bettering the human condition in this world without regard to the next" (p. 47), and a study of the importance of local context, individually and in comparison, to the explanation of political economy and to his view of Enlightenment." -Charles W. J. Withers, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, H-NETregard to the next" (p. 47), and a study of the importance of local context, individually and in comparison, to the explanation of political economy and to his view of Enlightenment." -Charles W. J. Withers, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, H-NETregard to the next" (p. 47), and a study of the importance of local context, individually and in comparison, to the explanation of political economy and to his view of Enlightenment." -Charles W. J. Withers, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, H-NETregard to the next" (p. 47), and a study of the importance of local context, individually and in comparison, to the explanation of political economy and to his view of Enlightenment." -Charles W. J. Withers, Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, H-NET
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition22
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 73
Dewey Decimal941.107
Table Of ContentPreface; 1. The case for the Enlightenment; 2. Scotland and Naples in 1700; 3. The intellectual worlds of Naples and Scotland 1680-c.1725; 4. The predicament of 'kingdoms governed as provinces'; 5. Vico, after Bayle; 6. Hume, after Bayle and Mandeville; 7. The advent of Enlightenment: political economy in Naples and Scotland 1730-1760; Conclusion: the Enlightenment vindicated?; Bibliography; Index.
SynopsisAn interesting and ambitious comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and Naples., 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 in the van of those advocating the cause of Enlightenment by means of political economy. Robertson pays particular attention to the greatest thinkers in each country, David Hume and Giambattista Vico., 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., An interesting and ambitious comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and Naples. Challenging the 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.
LC Classification NumberB802 .R62 2005
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