Irish Enlightenment
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780674045774
Subjects: Enlightenment; Religion and politics; Church and state, ireland; Ireland, intellectual life; Ireland, politics and government
Description: During the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, Scotland and England produced well-know figures as David Hume, Adam Smith, and John Locke. Ireland's contribution to this revolution in Western thought has received much less attention. Offering a corrective to the view that Ireland was intellectually stagnant during this period, The Irish Enlightenment considers a range of artists, writers, and philosophers who were full participants in the pan-European experiment that forged the modern world.