Thomas Jefferson's Enlightenment

English, Scottish and French Influences on the Third US President

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightenment: English, Scottish and French Influences on the Third US President retraces Jefferson’s intellectual history. His education in rural Virginia exposed him first to the Latin and Greek classics, then to the political and legal thought of opposition (‘country’) Whigs from 18th-century England. From his college days, he started to absorb the quite distinct views of the Scottish Enlightenment then the five years he spent in Paris (1784-1789), mostly as American Minister to France, broadened his horizons even more. An enthusiastic amateur scientist, he studied the latest science and liberal politics of his French circle, the most important being the Marquis de Condorcet, whose revolutionary ‘social mathematics’ was 200 years ahead of its time. The English, Scottish and French perspectives Jefferson was exposed to shaped his thinking in many ways on his return to the US, influencing his own promotion of science as president of the American Philosophical Society and agricultural improver. It shaped his unique views on religion and ethics, up to his very last published letter. However, it failed to eradicate his great blind spot in regard to slavery as the only enslaved people he freed were from his own family.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-31
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:230
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666940435

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Allmän historia och världshistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Iain McLean is senior research fellow and emeritus professor in politics at Nuffield College, Oxford University.

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McLean offers an intellectual genealogy of sorts for the third US president … McLean has researched widely in Jefferson’s own papers and the works of the thinkers who shaped his thought. Jefferson scholars and students of the early republic will find much of this work familiar, albeit well presented, in this volume.

Innehållsförteckning

List of TablesAcknowledgmentsThomas Jefferson: A ChronologyIntroductionPart One: EnglandChapter One: ‘I cannot live without books’Chapter Two: A country Whig in Williamsburg: the education of Thomas JeffersonPart Two: ScotlandChapter Three: The Scottish Enlightenment comes to VirginiaChapter Four: Declaring independence and religious freedom the Scottish wayPart Three: FranceChapter Five: A Virginian in ParisChapter Six: Jefferson in the salons of Paris: a deeper diveChapter Seven: The social mathematics of the Marquis de CondorcetPart Four: MonticelloChapter Eight: The Room where it happened: the conflict between two paragons of the American EnlightenmentChapter Nine: The climax of the American enlightenment: the Danbury Baptists, the ‘Jefferson Bible’, and Jefferson’s last letterChapter Ten: The General Spread of the Light of ScienceConclusionAuthor’s NoteBibliographyAbout the Author

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