The Democratic Intellect : : Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century: Edinburgh Classic Editions / / Lindsay Paterson, Murdo Macdonald, George Davie, Richard Gunn.
An Edinburgh Classic edition of the cornerstone work on Scotland’s intellectual identity‘A truly seminal work in the Scottish intellectual tradition’ - James KelmanFirst published in 1961, The Democratic Intellect provoked a re-evaluation of Scotland’s philosophy of itself. George Davie's accou...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Classic Editions : ECE
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Author’s preface and introductory essay
- Part 1: UNIVERSITY POLITICS
- 1: The Presbyterian inheritance
- 2: The first assault of 1826
- 3: Lorimer and the 1858 commission
- 4: 1889 – surrender or compromise?
- Part 2: THE CRISIS IN SCIENCE
- 5: The 1838 contest for the Edinburgh mathematical chair
- 6: Mathematics without metaphysics
- 7: Geometry or algebra?
- 8: The humanistic bias of Scottish science
- Part 3: THE CRISIS IN CLASSICS
- 9: The vernacular basis of Scottish humanism
- 10: Blood and culture
- Part 4: FERRIER AND COMMON SENSE
- 11: A metropolis of common sense
- 12: Tensions in the Scottish intellectual camps
- 13: The alienation of common sense
- 14: The thirty years war
- Notes
- Index