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ISBN: 9781841586403

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The Scottish Enlightenment

Alexander Broadie

This title explores the achievement of the Scottish Enlightenment. It looks not only at the thought, ideas and people who lived then but also at the creations that were animated by that thought.

Alexander Broadie

Alexander Brodie is a Professor of Logic and Rhetoric at Glasgow University – a chair once occupied by Adam Smith – and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has published many books on Scottish thought.

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