Beyond the Enlightenment

Colin C Kidd

ISBN 10: 1474493033 / ISBN 13: 9781474493031

Published by Edinburgh University Press, GB, 2023

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Explicitly address the 19th century legacy of the Scottish EnlightenmentExplores the multi-stranded legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment in nineteenth-century cultureOffers 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 centuryThis 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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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond the Enlightenment
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474493033
• ISBN 13: 9781474493031
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

Aileen Fyfe is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. She is a social and cultural historian of science and technology, and has written extensively about the communication of science, and the history of academic publishing more broadly. Her books include A History of Scientific Journals: Publishing at the Royal Society, 1665-2015 (UCL Press, 2022), Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing 1820-1860 (Chicago University Press, 2012) and Science and Salvation: Evangelicals and Popular Science Publishing in Victorian Britain (Chicago University Press, 2004). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2022.

Colin Kidd is Wardlaw Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews. His books include Subverting Scotland’s Past (1993), British Identities before Nationalism (1999) and The Forging of Races (2006). He is a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He was co-editor of the Scottish Historical Review between 1999 and 2004.