The case for the Enlightenment : Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 /

An innovative 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 a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robertson, John, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Colección:Ideas in context ; 73.
Temas:
Hume, David. > A treatise of human nature.
Vico, Giambattista. > Principi di una scienza nuova.
Enlightenment.
Enlightenment > Scotland.
Enlightenment > Italy > Naples.
Siècle des Lumières.
Siècle des Lumières > Écosse.
Siècle des Lumières > Italie > Naples.
HISTORY.
Wirtschaftstheorie
Aufklärung
Italy > Naples.
Scotland.
Schottland
Königreich Neapel
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; chapter 1 The case for the Enlightenment; chapter 2 Scotland and Naples in 1700; chapter 3 The intellectual worlds of Naples and Scotland 1680-c.1725; chapter 4 The predicament of 'kingdoms governed as provinces'; chapter 5 Vico, after Bayle; chapter 6 Hume, after Bayle and Mandeville; chapter 7 The advent of Enlightenment: political economy in Naples and Scotland 1730-1760; Conclusion: the Enlightenment vindicated?; Bibliography; Index.

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