The Enlightenment in Scotland national and

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The Enlightenment in Scotland
national and international perspectives
Ed. JEAN-FRANÇOIS DUNYACH and ANN THOMSON
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The Enlightenment in Scotland: national and international perspectives
Edited by JEAN-FRANÇOIS DUNYACH and ANN THOMSON
What was the Scottish Enlightenment? Long since ignored or sidelined, it is now a
controversial topic – damned by some as a conservative movement objectively allied
to the enemies of enlightenment, placed centre stage by others as the archetype of
what is meant by ‘Enlightenment’.
In this book leading experts reassess the issue by exploring both the eighteenthcentury intellectual developments taking place within Scotland and the Scottish
contribution to the Enlightenment as a whole. The Scottish experience during this
period forms the main theme of early chapters, with contributors examining the
central philosophy of the ‘science of man’, the reality of ‘applied enlightenment’ in
Scotland, and the Presbyterian hostility to the spread of ‘heretical’ ideas. Moving
beyond Scotland’s borders, contributors in later chapters examine the wider
recognition of Scotland’s intellectual activity, both within Europe and across the
Atlantic. Through a series of case studies authors assess the engagement of
European intellectuals with Scottish thinkers, looking at the French interpretation of
Adam Smith’s notion of sympathy, divergent approaches to the writing of history in
Scotland and Germany, and the variety of Neapolitan responses to Scottish thought;
the final chapter analyses the links between the ‘moderate Enlightenment’ in
Scotland and America. Through these innovative studies this book provides a rich
and nuanced understanding of Enlightenment thought in Scotland and its impact in
Europe and North America, highlighting the importance of placing the national
context in a transnational perspective.
NICHOLAS PHILLIPSON, Foreword
JEAN-FRANÇOIS DUNYACH and ANN THOMSON, Introduction
ALLAN I. MACINNES, Applied Enlightenment: its Scottish limitations in the eighteenth
century
COLIN KIDD, Enlightenment and anti-Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Scotland:
an Ayrshire-Renfrewshire microclimate
ALEXANDER BROADIE, Scotland’s ‘science of man’
LÁSZLÓ KONTLER, Historical discourses and the science of man in the late eighteenth
century: separate Scottish and German paths?
MICHEL MALHERBE, From Scotland to France: from Smith’s sympathy to Grouchy’s
sensibilité
GIROLAMO IMBRUGLIA, Scottish Enlightenment in Naples: history and political
languages of reform
MARK G. SPENCER, Enlightenment in Scotland and America
Summaries
Bibliography
Index
Jean-François Dunyach is a Senior lecturer in early-modern history at the
Université Paris–Sorbonne. He has published widely on historiography and the
intellectual history of the Enlightenment, and is currently working on the
intellectual origins and networks of political economy in France and Britain.
Ann Thomson is Professor of European intellectual history at the European
University Institute. She has published numerous books and articles on various
aspects of the ‘natural history of man’ in the long eighteenth century and on the
circulation of ideas, translation, and journalism, including the co-edited Cultural
transfers: France and Britain in the long eighteenth century (SVEC 2010:04).
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