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Format: Hardcover Book Title: Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment Publication Name: Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment Item Height: 0.9 in Item Weight: 18.8 Oz height: 0.9 in width: 5.7 in Subject: History & Surveys / General, Modern / 18th Century, Europe / Great Britain / Scotland, Social History, General Item Length: 9 in Type: Textbook Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, History Item Width: 5.7 in Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History Ser. Number of Pages: Xv, 298 Pages Author: Susan Manning ISBN: 9780230104143 Publication Year: 2011 Language: English

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Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment, Hardcover by .... It argues for their central importance in eighteenth-century thought and culture. It examines discussions of race, nation, the self, virtue, sociability, and historical progress. Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment, Hardcover by Ahnert, Thomas (EDT); Manning, Susan (EDT), ISBN 0230104142, ISBN-13 9780230104143, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "This book is about Enlightenment ideas of "character." It argues for their central importance in eighteenth-century thought and culture. The scope of this volume extends well beyond the confines of literary history. It examines discussions of race, nation, the self, virtue, sociability, and historical progress. The specially commissioned essays in this volume are the first, collectively, to address the broader significance of Enlightenment "character," and to do so from an interdisciplinary focus is on the Scottish Enlightenment, but contributors consider these debates in their international contexts and in relation to parallel developments in Britain, Europe, and America"--

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