The Case for The Enlightenment
Author | : John Robertson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2005-10-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781139448079 |
ISBN-13 | : 1139448072 |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Case for The Enlightenment by : John Robertson
Download or read book The Case for The Enlightenment written by John Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interesting and ambitious comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations.