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The Irish enlightenment /

During the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, Scotland and England produced well-know figures as David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Locke. Ireland's contribution to this revolution in Western thought has received much less attention. Offering a corrective to the view that Ireland was intellectuall...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Michael, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The religious enlightenment, 1688-1730
  • The Presbyterian enlightenment and the nature of man
  • The Anglican enlightenment and the nature of God
  • The Catholic enlightenment and the nature of law
  • Social enlightenment, ca. 1730-ca. 1760
  • Languages of civility
  • The enlightened counter public
  • Communities of interest
  • Political enlightenment, ca. 1760-1798
  • A culture of trust?
  • Fracturing the Irish enlightenment
  • An enlightened civil war
  • Conclusion: Ireland's missing modernity.