Download or read book Lord Kames written by Andreas Rahmatian and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andreas Rahmatian explains Kames' conceptions of legal philosophy, including black-letter law, legal science, legal theory, legal sociology and anthropology in its early stages, setting them in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Thomas Reid written by Thomas Reid and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Reid (1710&–1796) is now recognized as one of the towering figures of the Enlightenment. Best known for his published writings on epistemology and moral theory, he was also an accomplished mathematician and natural philosopher, as an earlier volume of his manuscripts edited by Paul Wood for the Edinburgh Reid Edition, Thomas Reid on the Animate Creation, has shown. The Correspondence of Thomas Reid collects all of the known letters to and from Reid in a fully annotated form. Letters already published by Sir William Hamilton and others have been reedited, and roughly half of the letters included appear in print for the first time. Writing in 1802, Reid's disciple and biographer Dugald Stewart doubted that Reid's correspondence &"would be generally interesting.&" This collection proves otherwise, for the letters illuminate virtually every aspect of Reid's life and career and, in some instances, provide us with invaluable evidence about activities otherwise undocumented in his manuscripts or published works. Through his correspondence we can trace Reid's relations with contemporaries such as David Hume and his colleagues at both King's College, Aberdeen, and the University of Glasgow, as well as his engagement with the most controversial philosophical, scientific, and political issues of his day. If anything, the letters assembled here serve as the starting point for understanding Reid and his place in the Enlightenment.
Download or read book Memoirs of the life and writings of Henry Home of Kames by A F Tytler written by Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry Home Lord Kames and the Scottish Enlightenment A Study in National Character and in the History of Ideas written by William C. Lehmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the present study is to present the life and work and thought of a remarkable pioneering figure on the Scottish scene over the middle half, broadly, of the eighteenth century, in their dynamic relations with that most extraordinary intellectual awakening and scientific, edu cational, literary and religious development of his time generally known as the "Scottish Enlightenment. " That movement in thought and culture was indeed in more ways than one a unique phenomenon in the history of western culture, comparable, in its own manner and measure, as we shall attempt to point out later, with such history-making movements or epochs as the Age of Pericles in Greece, the Augustan Age in Rome, the Renaissance movement in Italy and Western Europe generally, the up-surge both in science and in letters in England in the seventeenth century, and the contemporary movement in France associated with the Encyclopedists. This Scottish Enlightenment, often also spoken of as the "Awakening of Scotland," was of course more than a movement merely on the intel lectual and cultural level. It had also political bearings and was rather directly conditioned by events and changes in the political arena, begin ning with the Union with England in 1707; and even more directly was it accompanied and conditioned by social and economic changes which were in a short span of time to transform the face of this far-northern country almost beyond recognition.
Download or read book The Language of Daily Life in England 1400 1800 written by Arja Nurmi and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Language of Daily Life in England (1400–1800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study tackles a linguistic or social phenomenon, and approaches it with a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, always embedded in the socio-historical context. The volume presents new information on linguistic variation and change, while evaluating and developing the relevant theoretical and methodological tools. The writers form one of the leading research teams in the field, and, as compilers of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, have an informed understanding of the data in all its depth. This volume will be of interest to scholars in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and socio-pragmatics, but also e.g. social history. The approachable style of writing makes it also inviting for advanced students.
Download or read book The Correspondence of Adam Ferguson Vol 1 written by Vincenzo Merolle and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pickering edition of Adam Ferguson's correspondence contains over 400 letters, most of which have never before been published. The correspondence includes letters between Ferguson and Adam Smith, David Hume and Alexander Carlyle and many other central figures of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Download or read book Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century written by Henry Grey Graham and published by London : A. and C. Black. This book was released on 1908 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Download or read book The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Square and the Tower written by Niall Ferguson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reevaluation of history's turning points as collisions between old power hierarchies and new social networks explains how networks have always existed and have been responsible for key innovations and revolutionary ideas.
Download or read book The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Terrorists Anarchists and Republicans written by Richard Whatmore and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth century In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known as Geneva Barracks. The Barracks were the remnants of an experimental community called New Geneva, a settlement of Calvinist republican rebels who fled the continent in 1782. The British believed that the rectitude and industriousness of these imported revolutionaries would have a positive effect on the Irish populace. The experiment was abandoned, however, after the Calvinists demanded greater independence and more state money for their project. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire. Richard Whatmore brings to life a violent age in which powerful states like Britain and France intervened in the affairs of smaller, weaker countries, justifying their actions on the grounds that they were stopping anarchists and terrorists from destroying society, religion and government. The Genevans and the Irish rebels, in turn, saw themselves as advocates of republican virtue, willing to sacrifice themselves for liberty, rights and the public good. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans shows how the massacre at Geneva Barracks marked an end to the old Europe of diverse political forms, and the ascendancy of powerful states seeking empire and markets—in many respects the end of enlightenment itself.
Download or read book Memoirs of the life writings and correspondence of W Smellie written by Robert Kerr and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memoirs of the Life Writings Correspondence of William Smellie Late Printer in Edinburgh Secretary and Superintendent of Natural History to the Society of Scotish Antiquaries written by Robert Kerr and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres Arts Sciences Etc written by William Jerdan and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Literary and Philosophical Essays written by John Foster and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feminine Enlightenment written by DeLucia JoEllen DeLucia and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revises established understandings of British women writers' contributions to Enlightenment narratives of social and historical progress Drawing on original archival research, A Feminine Enlightenment argues that women writers shaped Enlightenment conversations regarding the role of sentiment and gender in the civilizing process. By reading women's literature alongside history and philosophy and moving between the eighteenth century and Romantic era, JoEllen DeLucia challenges conventional historical and generic boundaries. Beginning with Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), she tracks discussions of "e;women's progress"e; from the rarified atmosphere of mid-eighteenth-century Bluestocking salons and the masculine domain of the Scottish university system to the popular Minerva Press novels of the early nineteenth century. Ultimately, this study positions feminine genres such as the Gothic romance and Bluestocking poetry, usually seen as outliers in a masculine Age of Reason, as essential to understanding emotion's role in Enlightenment narratives of progress. The effect of this study is twofold: to show how developments in women's literature reflected and engaged with Enlightenment discussions of emotion, sentiment, and commercial and imperial expansion; and to provide new literary and historical contexts for contemporary conversations that continue to use "e;women's progress"e; to assign cultures and societies around the globe a place in universalizing schemas of development.Key FeaturesEstablishes the centrality of gender to Enlightenment discussions of social and historical development Uncovers evidence of women writers' participation in the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of sentiment and historical progressProvides literary and historical background for ongoing discussions of the history of emotion and the study of affect
