An edition of Boswell's enlightenment (2015)

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An edition of Boswell's enlightenment (2015)

Boswell's enlightenment

"In 1763, the young James Boswell left Great Britain for a 'Grand Tour' of the Continent. The tour was a tradition among British and Scottish youths; by visiting the great historical sites, especially those of Roman and Greek antiquity, they would complete the studies they had begun at universities back home. Boswell's tour, however, was different: he was less concerned with the ruins of the past than the thinkers of the present. In particular, he was eager to question the leading figures of the Enlightenment on matters of faith and God--of particular importance to Boswell, who had been raised in the dour and dire atmosphere of the Church of Scotland. In his remarkable conversations with figures like Voltaire, Rousseau, and Hume, we see a man struggling with the claims of reason and needs of faith--a struggle that remains very much our own 250 years later"--Provided by publisher.

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English
Pages
278

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Boswell's enlightenment
2015, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
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Table of Contents

Prologue : the view from Arthur's Seat
In the Kirk's shadow
At home with Hume
A journal is born
Enter Johnson
Derelict in Utrecht
Belle de Zuylen
Aufklarüng Agonistes
The distance between Môtiers and Ferney
On libertines and liberty
After Corsica, before futurity.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
828/.609, B
Library of Congress
B1302.E65 Z37 2015, B1302.E65Z37 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
278 pages
Number of pages
278

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27176907M
Internet Archive
boswellsenlighte0000zare
ISBN 10
0674368231
ISBN 13
9780674368231
LCCN
2014037309
OCLC/WorldCat
891185891

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