The Irish Enlightenment / / Michael Brown.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Brown, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Locating the Irish Enlightenment --; Part One. The Religious Enlightenment, 1688–ca. 1730 --; 1. The Presbyterian Enlightenment and the Nature of Man --; 2. The Anglican Enlightenment and the Nature of God --; 3. The Catholic Enlightenment and the Nature of Law --; Part Two. The Social Enlightenment, ca. 1730–ca. 1760 --; 4. Languages of Civility --; 5. The Enlightened Counter Public --; 6. Communities of Interest --; Part Three. The Political Enlightenment, ca. 1760–1798 --; 7. A Culture of Trust? --; 8. Fracturing the Irish Enlightenment --; 9. An Enlightened Civil War --; Conclusion: Ireland’s Missing Modernity --; Notes --; Acknowledgements --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674968639; 9783110638585
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674968639
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Michael Brown.

Scotland and England produced well-known intellectuals during the Enlightenment, but Ireland’s contribution to this revolution in Western thought has received less attention. Michael Brown shows that Ireland also had its Enlightenment, which for a brief time opened up the possibility of a tolerant society, despite a history of sectarian conflict.