Barbarism and Religion

The second volume of Barbarism and Religion explores the historiography of Enlightenment, and looks at Gibbon's intellectual relationship with writers sucah as Giannone, Voltaire, Hume, Robertson, Ferguson and Adam Smith. Edward Gibbon's intellectual trajectory is both similar but at points crucially distinct from the dominant Latin Enlightened narrative these thinkers developed. The interaction of philosophy, erudition and narrative is central to enlightened historiography, and John Pocock again shows how the Decline and Fall is both akin to but distinct from the historiographical context within which Gibbon wrote his great work.

Author: J. G. a. Pocock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/02/2001
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.01w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780521797603

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