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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Robertson, John, 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Series:Ideas in context ; 73.
Subjects:
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
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary: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 at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 455 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-438) and index.
ISBN:0511132840
9780511132841
9780511490705
0511490704
9780521847872
0521847877
9780521035729
0521035724

Similar Items