The Cambridge companion to eighteenth-century thought / edited by Frans De Bruyn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Bruyn, Frans, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Thought gives a comprehensive overview of intellectual life in the eighteenth-century Anglophone world at a time when the boundaries of knowledge were growing rapidly in response to a world undergoing radical change. Organised in two parts, the volume begins with four wide-ranging chapters on key areas of thought: philosophy, science, political and legal theory, and religion. The second part comprises shorter chapters that focus on subjects of emerging inquiry, such as aesthetics, economics, and sensibility and emotion, as well as intellectual disciplines undergoing methodological evolution, such as history. A chronology is provided to help situate historical events, important thinkers, key publications, and intellectual milestones in relation to one another, and guides for further reading point the reader to avenues for deeper exploration of the Companion's various topics.

Contents:

Introduction / Frans De Bruyn

Philosophical thought : theories of knowledge and moral thought / Frans De Bruyn

Science in the long eighteenth century / Sara Landreth

Religious thought : the defence of religious establishment / Roger D. Lund

Historical thought / Ruth Mack

Wealth and corruption : eighteenth-century social and economic thought in four scandals / Robert Sparling

LIterary and aesthetic theory / Philip Smallwood

Sensibility : passion, emotion affect / Julie Murray.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

9781009040181

1009040189

9781009040327

1009040324

9781139998383

1139998382