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Sto caricando le informazioni... Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed the Worlddi James Buchan
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Promised a lot but, at least for this reader, failed to deliver. The flowering of talent in Edinburgh, during the second half of the 18th century, is a remarkable and stirring period, yet, while some passages were expressive and added to my knowledge, I found this account somewhat plodding and disjointed. I felt it lacked an overarching theme and perhaps failed to explain the effect that Edinburgh had on the wider world. ( ) A history of the great thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment, from the Highland rebellion of 1745 to the French Revolution of 1789. During this period Edinburgh led the world in new ideas, with David Hume, Adam Smith, William Robertson, Adam Ferguson and Hugh Blair and others influencing intellectuals and leaders for years to come. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In the early 18th century, Edinburgh was a filthy backwater town synonymous with poverty and disease. Yet by century's end, it had become the marvel of modern Europe, home to the finest minds of the day and their breathtaking innovations in architecture, politics, science, the arts, and economies - all of which continues to echo loudly today. Adam Smith penned "The Wealth of Nations". James Boswell produced "The Life of Samuel Johnson". Alongside them, pioneers such as David Hume, Robert Burns, James Hutton, and Sir Walter Scott transformed the way we understand our perceptions and feelings, sickness and health, relations between the sexes, the natural world, and the purpose of existence. James Buchan beautifully reconstructs the intimate geographic scale and boundless intellectual milieu of Enlightenment Edinburgh. With the scholarship of an historian and the elegance of a novelist, he tells the story of the triumph of this unlikely town and the men whose vision brought it into being. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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