Beyond the enlightenment : Scottish intellectual life, 1790-1914 / edited by Aileen Fyfe and Colin C. Kidd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fyfe, Aileen, editor.

Kidd, Colin C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment--Scotland.

Enlightenment.

Intellectual life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

England : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2023]

Summary:

A pioneering overview of Scottish intellectual life during the long 19th century, focusing in particular on the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Scotland after Enlightenment

2. The Enlightenment Legacy and the Democratic Intellect

3. Dugald Stewart, William Godwin and the Formation of Political Economy

4. The French Revolution and the Transformation of Moderatism: The Silence of the Scribes

5. James Mackintosh: The Science of Politics after the French Revolution

6. Scotland's Freethinking Societies: Debating Natural Theology, 1820-c.1843

7. Christian Isobel Johnstone: Radical Journalism and the Ambiguous Legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment

8. Robert Mudie: Pioneer Naturalist and Crusading Reformer

9. Theories of Universal Degeneration in Post-Enlightenment Scotland

10. Robert Knox: The Embittered Scottish Anatomist and his Controversial Race Science in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain

11. Thomas Carlyle and the Scottish Enlightenment Concept of Sympathy

12. Covenanting and Enlightenment in Nineteenth-Century Reformed Presbyterian Political Theory

13. Andrew Lang and the Cosmopolitan Condition

14. Criticism and Freethought, 1880-1914

15. Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Enlightenment in Scottish Criticism

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Fyfe, Aileen Beyond the Enlightenment

ISBN:

1-4744-9305-X