This is a book not simply about ideas but also about those ideas made flesh and about the new traditions thus created that still animate and inspire the world and the Scotland of today.
. . For many people this book will become a companion for years or even a lifetime.” —Scotsman, UK
The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society.
This volume thus enriches our picture not only of the Scottish Enlightenment, but of the Enlightenment in general.
This work presents the history of how Scotland produced the institutions, beliefs and human character that have made the West into the most powerful culture in the world. Within one...
The Scottish Enlightenment was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science, philosophy, history, economics, and other disciplines also, were immense; and...
Originally published in 1976, this book discusses the relationship of the age of intellectual enlightenment in Scotland to the age of economic improvement and analyses the Scottish Enlightenment from a more sociological point of view.
The Scottish Enlightenment: An Introduction
The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society.