Anna Plassart

The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution

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Produktbeschreibung

This book recovers the Scottish Enlightenment's forgotten commentary on the French Revolution. It argues that this commentary is both a major intellectual discussion in its own right and essential to our understanding of how Enlightenment philosophy and the heritage of Adam Smith were reinterpreted for post-revolutionary Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781107464568
• ISBN-10: 1107464560
• Artikelnr.: 58313794

Autorenporträt

Anna Plassart is a Junior Research Fellow in Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Burke-Paine Debate and Scotland's Science of Man: 1. The Burke-Paine debate and the Scottish Enlightenment
2. The heritage of Hume and Smith: Scotland's science of man and politics
Part II. The 1790s: 3. Scotland's political debate
4. James Mackintosh and Scottish philosophical history
5. John Millar and the Scottish discussion on war, modern sociability and national sentiment
6. Adam Ferguson on democracy and empire
Part III. 1802-15: 7. The French Revolution and the Edinburgh Review
8. Commerce, war and empire
Conclusion.