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The Enlightenment in Scotland national and international perspectives

Ed. JEAN-FRANÇOIS DUNYACH and ANN THOMSON

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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 eighteenth- century 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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