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The case for the Enlightenment : Scotland and Naples, 1680-1760 / John Robertson

Robertson, John,i1951- [Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 455 pages)

Ideas in context ; 73

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 May 2016)

978-0-511-49070-5 ; 978-0-521-84787-2 ; 978-0-521-03572-9

CF 1200

 

Königreich Neapel  Schottland  Neapel  Aufklärung  Italien  Geistesgeschichte 1680-1760 

 

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The Case for the Enlightenment is a comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and in Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, the distinguished intellectual historian John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations. Before 1700, Scotland and Naples faced a bleak future as backward, provincial kingdoms in a Europe of aggressive commercial states. Yet by 1760, Scottish and Neapolitan thinkers were in the van of those advocating the cause of Enlightenment by means of political economy. By studying the social and institutional contexts of intellectual life in the two countries, and the currents of thought promoted within them, The Case for the Enlightenment explains this transformation. John Robertson pays particular attention to the greatest thinkers in each country, David Hume and Giambattista Vico.