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Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 2: Narratives of Civil Government

By J. G. A. Pocock

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521797608, 9780521797603
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17879833 bytes)
Pages
440\222
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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