James Wilson

James Wilson

Description

Professor Conrad's entry is a profile of James Wilson, pp.258-259.

ISBN

9780195104301

Publication Date

2002

Publisher

Oxford University Press

City

New York, NY

Keywords

Enlightenment-Encyclopedias, Enlightenment-United States-Encyclopedias, Philosophy-Encyclopedias, Europe-Intellectual life-18th century, United States-Intellectual life-18th century

Disciplines

Law | Law and Philosophy | Legal History

Comments

Kors, Alan Charles, ed. Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. Oxford University Press, 2002.

Defining the Enlightenment as the "long eighteenth century," the Encyclopedia focuses on the entire range of philosophic and social changes engendered by the Enlightenment. It extends the conventional geographical boundaries of the Enlightenment, covering not only France, England, Scotland, the Low Countries, Italy, English-speaking North America, the German states, and Hapsburg Austria but also Iberian, Ibero-American, Jewish, Russian, and Eastern European cultures. Nor does the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment limit itself to major centers like Paris in France and Edinburgh in Scotland, but shares the rich lode of recent scholarship on "secondary" and "provincial" centers such as Berlin and Geneva; Philadelphia and Milan.

The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment brings a similar spirit of inclusion to the new theoretical and methodological approaches that have flowered in the humanities during the past two decades. Including feminist and various post-modernist reassessments alongside more traditional perspectives, the four volumes offer the broadest possible range of current knowledge.

Accessibility combined with scholarly rigor make the Encyclopedia the first choice for researching any aspect of the Enlightenment.

Full bibliographic details available here.

Copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library, B 802 .E53 2002 v.1-4

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