Seems like we have to read the Berry book. These are the most interesting ideas I've seen on the Scottish Enlightenment since those contained in Wills' 'Inventing America'.
A second note: Did you see that Chat's response includes a (now-disembodied) footnote? Perhaps that note made just your point about Luxemburg and Weber!
And I thought it was only me who had hallucinatory references that even my aphantasic mind could conjure. I am still looking for a book I read in 1965/6 that had an appendix in which the author projected the favorable effects on the structure of society when, not if, unlimited sources of power become widely available.
Seems like we have to read the Berry book. These are the most interesting ideas I've seen on the Scottish Enlightenment since those contained in Wills' 'Inventing America'.
Thanks for this!
Brillant, thanks Brad. The Wuppertaler wasn’t all that bad then
A third note: An open-access review of Chris Berry's book on the Scottish enlightenment's view commercial society can be found here.
https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/epub/10.3366/jsp.2015.0089
A second note: Did you see that Chat's response includes a (now-disembodied) footnote? Perhaps that note made just your point about Luxemburg and Weber!
It was a hallucinatory footnote. Let me see if I saved it...
And I thought it was only me who had hallucinatory references that even my aphantasic mind could conjure. I am still looking for a book I read in 1965/6 that had an appendix in which the author projected the favorable effects on the structure of society when, not if, unlimited sources of power become widely available.