Patrons of Enlightenment

by Andrew, Edward G.

• ISBN13: 9780802090645
• ISBN10: 0802090648
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-28
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

"In Patrons of Enlightenment, Edward G. Andrew examines the relationships between philosophers and their patrons, with particular focus on eighteenth-century thinkers in England, France, and Scotland. He argues that the ideal of intellectual autonomy or independence of thought, fostered by the growing readership of the time, was largely fabricated by thinkers who depended upon royal or aristocratic patronage. Although no scholar or philosopher subsisted by the labours of his or her pen, many claimed that the age of patronage had passed or had been taken over by the booksellers. An intellectual marketplace had supposedly replaced hierarchy in the republic of patron-client relationships in this area casts doubt on the common view that republicanism was the dominant ideology of the Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Edward G. Andrew is a professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	3	(10)
1 Patronage of Philosophy	13	(22)
2 Enlightenment and Print Culture	35	(24)
3 Seneca in the Age of Frederick and Catherine	59	(23)
4 Patronage and the Modes of Liberal Tolerance: Bayle, Care, and Locke	82	(17)
5 Voltaire and His Female Protectors	99	(20)
6 Scottish Universities and Their Patrons: Argyll, Bute, and Dundas	119	(16)
7 Independence in Theory and Practice: D'Alembert and Rousseau	135	(19)
8 Samuel Johnson and the Question of Enlightenment in England	154	(16)
9 Irish Antagonists: Burke and Shelburne	170	(18)
Conclusion	188	(7)
Notes	195	(52)
Bibliography	247	(24)
Index	271