Description
Book SynopsisDuring the Enlightenment, Scottish intellectuals and administrators met the demands of profit and progress while shepherding concerns for self and other, individual and community, and family and work. This book presents the Scottish Enlightenment as an exemplar of tenacious hope countering the excesses of individualism.
Table of Contents
- Contents
- PART I. A TALE OF TWO STORIES
- 1. Communication Ethics: The Necessity of Tenacious Hope
- Part II. COORDINATES OF CREATIVE INNOVATION
- 2. Scottish Education: Ethics and Productive Change
- 3. Lord Provost George Drummond: Architect of Imaginative Space
- PART III. SCHOLARSHIP AND LOCALITY
- 4. Adam Smith: Commercial Life and Caution
- 5. David Hume: Scholarship and Skepticism
- 6. Thomas Reid: Common Sense and Undue Clarity
- 7. George Campbell: An Integrative Rhetoric
- 8. Adam Ferguson: Discerning Intersections
- PART IV. THE REIFYING GRASP
- 9. Sir Walter Scott: The Fragility of Commemoration
- Communication Ethics and Marginalization: The Dark Side of Progress
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
