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Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment
The Scottish Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and scientific progress, in a country previously considered to be marginal to the European intellectual scene. Yet the enlightenment was not about politeness or civic humanism, but something more basic - the making of an improved society which could compete in every way in a rapidly changing world. David Hume, writing in 1752, commented that 'industry, knowledge and humanity are linked together by an indissoluble chain'. Collectively this volume of essays embraces many of the topics which Hume included under 'industry, knowledge and humanity': from the European Enlightenment and the Scots relation to it, to Scottish social history and i...
Academic Patronage in the Scottish Enlightenment
This book considers the politics of patronage appointments at the universities in Glasgow, Edinburgh and St Andrews, exploring the ways in which 388 men secured posts in three Scottish universities between 1690 and 1806. Most professors were political appointees vetted and supported by political factions and their leaders. This comprehensive study explores the improving agenda of political patrons and of those they served and relates this to the Scottish Enlightenment. Emerson argues that what was happening in Scotland was also occurring in other parts of Europe where, in relatively autonomous localities, elite patrons also shaped things as they wished them to be. The role of patronage in the Enlightenment is essential to any understanding of its origins and course.
Neglected Scots
The Scottish Enlightenment is often perceived as an Edinburgh phenomenon, centred on moral-political-economic questions and on the philosophical and historical interests of David Hume and his friends among the polite literati. In this new collection, the focus is squarely on eighteenth-century Glasgow, a thriving trading and industrial centre with a fine University, and on Women. The Glasgow sections look at three groups of men - the city's early virtuosi; members of the Glasgow Literary Society; and a largely neglected group of practical-minded Evangelicals, Professor John Anderson among them. The section on Scottish women of the century aims not simply to portray 'notable and accomplished' individuals, but to examine how women figured in and related to the Scottish Enlightenment as seen both as an historic period and in the context of the development of Scottish thought. There is an extensive bibliography, plus notes and indexes.
An Enlightened Duke
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll and 1st Earl of Ilay, lived a long and very active life as soldier, lawyer, politician, patron and businessman. History remembers him on the one-hand as courageous, good-natured, learned and accomplished - and, on the other, as 'a man of little truth, little honour, little principle'. His substantial political career, driven by gaining and increasing his power and that of his friends, is poorly documented, since many of his private papers have vanished. The author's interest in Argyll as a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment - which became a thirty-year-long quest to piece together the fragmentary evidence of his complex life into a coherent story of the contradictions within his personal, intellectual and business activities - has given us the first major study of a fascinating man, shown as having changed the nature of Scottish culture.
Utopia and the Ideal Society
This text provides a major study for all those working in the fields of 16th- and 17th-century political and social thought.
Man and Nature
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