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This book examines how the intellectual developments of the Scottish Enlightenment undermined Scotland's sense of nationalism.
This is an exploration of William Robertson, a leading figure in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment.
This is the first reset edition of Henderson's The Life of William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (1766). Henderson wrote two open letters to Samuel Johnson, criticizing his account of Scotland and the Scottish character as well as taking a side-swipe at Smollet. These too are included together with a new introduction to Henderson and his works.
This is a reassessment of the moral and theological foundations of modern Europe. It challenges a number of deeply rooted assumptions about the basis of both Scottish culture and of Enlightenments in general. It argues that the formidable dual influences of humanism and Calvinism forced a discussion about the essentially moral function of scholarship and learning to the very centre of intellectual debate in early modern Scotland, and that this in turn led to the growth of an "e;enlightened"e; community amongst the Scottish literati. As such, the text is a direct challenge to conventional accounts of the Scottish Enlightenment as an unanticipated, short-lived explosion of ideas.