Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. 1. Introduction: Scotland after Enlightenment 1
6. 2. The Enlightenment Legacy and the Democratic Intellect 18
7. 3. Dugald Stewart, William Godwin and the Formation of Political Economy 36
8. 4. The French Revolution and the Transformation of Moderatism: The Silence of the Scribes 54
9. 5. James Mackintosh: The Science of Politics after the French Revolution 70
10. 6. Scotland’s Freethinking Societies: Debating Natural Theology, 1820–c.1843 89
11. 7. Christian Isobel Johnstone: Radical Journalism and the Ambiguous Legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment 107
12. 8. Robert Mudie: Pioneer Naturalist and Crusading Reformer 126
13. 9. Theories of Universal Degeneration in Post‑Enlightenment Scotland 137
14. 10. Robert Knox: The Embittered Scottish Anatomist and his Controversial Race Science in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain 151
15. 11. Thomas Carlyle and the Scottish Enlightenment Concept of Sympathy 168
16. 12. Covenanting and Enlightenment in Nineteenth-Century Reformed Presbyterian Political Theory 187
17. 13. Andrew Lang and the Cosmopolitan Condition 205
18. 14. Criticism and Freethought, 1880–1914 223
19. 15. Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Enlightenment in Scottish Criticism 241
20. Index 258