Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #116271 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Synopsis
'The Scottish Enlightenment' was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science, philosophy, history, economics, and other disciplines also, were immense; and its influence has hardly if at all been dimmed in the intervening two centuries. This book, written for the general reader, considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the 'Scottish Enlightenment' such a wondrous moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas - men such as David Hume and Adam Smith, who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues.

Customer Reviews

After the '45
An extraordinary short period of Scottish history, much neglected by general historians, holds a fascinating and unique example of rapd growth in almost all areas of culture. This would be interesting were it not for the background which might have been thougt to exclude any such development. It is generally thought that the enlightenment was primarily a philosophic event but Brodies excellent descriptio of the larger picture has the quality of a denoument. Easy to read, clear and concise, no one intersted in the peiod should miss this.