The democratic intellect : Scotland and her universities in the nineteenth century /

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An Edinburgh Classic edition of the cornerstone work on Scotland's intellectual identity'A truly seminal work in the Scottish intellectual tradition' - James KelmanFirst published in 1961, The Democratic Intellect provoked a re-evaluation of Scotland's philosophy of itself. Georg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Davie, George Elder
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
Edición:Third edition / edited by Murdo Macdonald.
Colección:Edinburgh classic editions.
Temas:
Universities and colleges > Scotland.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
Universities and colleges.
Scotland.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Author's preface and introductory essay
  • Part 1: UNIVERSITY POLITICS
  • 1: The Presbyterian inheritance
  • 2: The first assault of 1826
  • 3: Lorimer and the 1858 commission
  • 4: 1889
  • surrender or compromise?
  • Part 2: THE CRISIS IN SCIENCE
  • 5: The 1838 contest for the Edinburgh mathematical chair
  • 6: Mathematics without metaphysics
  • 7: Geometry or algebra?
  • 8: The humanistic bias of Scottish science
  • Part 3: THE CRISIS IN CLASSICS
  • 9: The vernacular basis of Scottish humanism
  • 10: Blood and culture
  • Part 4: FERRIER AND COMMON SENSE
  • 11: A metropolis of common sense
  • 12: Tensions in the Scottish intellectual camps
  • 13: The alienation of common sense
  • 14: The thirty years war
  • Notes
  • Index

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