Beyond the Enlightenment
Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914
1st Edition
Published on 11. April 2023
269 pages
978-1-4744-9305-5 (ISBN)
Description
This collection explores the richness of Scottish intellectual life, its currents and controversies, from the French Revolution to the First World War, focusing in particular on the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment. Offering a series of cutting-edge interventions, the contributors cast light on a range of individuals, themes and episodes from the period. Topics range from the role of women as intellectuals to the rise of a science of race, and from freethinking secularism to the debate over George Davie's influential account of 19th-century universities.
Collectively, the chapters represent a pioneering overview of Scottish intellectual life during the long 19th century.
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Content
- 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
