Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 2

副标题: Narratives of Civil Government

ISBN: 9780521797603

出版社: Cambridge University Press; New Ed edition

出版年: April 2, 2001

页数: 440

定价: $26.99

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.