TY - BOOK ID - 2981678 TI - The case for the Enlightenment : Scotland and Naples 1680-1760 PY - 2005 VL - 73 SN - 0521847877 0521035724 1107152844 0511183054 0511132840 0511331371 0511490704 1280416130 0511201168 0511132301 9780511132841 9780511490705 9780511132308 9780521847872 9780521035729 PB - Cambridge New York Melbourne Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Enlightenment KW - Lumières (Philosophie) KW - Lumières [Siècle des ] KW - Siècle des Lumières KW - Verlichting (Filosofie) KW - Aufklärung KW - Eighteenth century KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Rationalism KW - Scotland KW - Italy KW - Naples (Italy) KW - Arts and Humanities KW - History KW - Enlightenment. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2981678 AB - The Case for the Enlightenment is a comparative study of the emergence of Enlightenment in Scotland and in Naples. Challenging the tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, the distinguished intellectual historian John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations. Before 1700, Scotland and Naples faced a bleak future as backward, provincial kingdoms in a Europe of aggressive commercial states. Yet by 1760, Scottish and Neapolitan thinkers were in the van of those advocating the cause of Enlightenment by means of political economy. By studying the social and institutional contexts of intellectual life in the two countries, and the currents of thought promoted within them, The Case for the Enlightenment explains this transformation. John Robertson pays particular attention to the greatest thinkers in each country, David Hume and Giambattista Vico. ER -