The Irish Enlightenment /

The Irish Enlightenment / / 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 s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Brown, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (640 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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