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Explicitly address the 19th century legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment
Explores the multi-stranded legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment in nineteenth-century culture
Offers a fresh approach to relations of faith and unbelief in nineteenth-century Scotland
Provides a multi-disciplinary account of nineteenth-century Scottish intellectual concerns, including literature, philosophy, natural science, theology, political economy, anthropology
Engages with the influential thesis of George Davie on the character and history of Scottish intellectual life from Enlightenment to twentieth century
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.
Contents
Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgements
1. Introduction: Scotland after EnlightenmentAileen Fyfe and Colin Kidd
2. The Enlightenment Legacy and the Democratic IntellectRobert Anderson
3. Dugald Stewart, William Godwin and the Formation of Political EconomyLina Weber
4. The French Revolution and the Transformation of Moderatism:The Silence of the ScribesJohn S. Warren
5. James Mackintosh: The Science of Politics after the French RevolutionRichard Whatmore
6. Scotland's Freethinking Societies: Debating Natural Theology, 1820-c.1843Felicity Loughlin
7. Christian Isobel Johnstone: Radical Journalism and the Ambiguous Legacy of the Scottish EnlightenmentJane Rendall
8. Robert Mudie: Pioneer Naturalist and Crusading ReformerEva-Charlotta Mebius
9. Theories of Universal Degeneration in Post-Enlightenment ScotlandBill Jenkins
10. Robert Knox: The Embittered Scottish Anatomist and his Controversial Race Science in Mid-Nineteenth-Century BritainEfram Sera-Shriar
11. Thomas Carlyle and the Scottish Enlightenment Concept of SympathyJoanna Malecka
12. Covenanting and Enlightenment in Nineteenth-Century Reformed Presbyterian Political TheoryValerie Wallace
13. Andrew Lang and the Cosmopolitan ConditionCatriona M.M. Macdonald
14. Criticism and Freethought, 1880-1914Colin Kidd
15. Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Enlightenment in Scottish CriticismGerard Carruthers
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