Boswell's enlightenment [electronic resource] / Robert Zaretsky.

9780674425231

Cambridge, Masschusetts : Harvard University Press, [2015].

©2015.

English

1 online resource (278 pages)

10.4159/9780674425231 doi

B1302.E65 Z37 2015eb

828/.609

"In 1763, the young James Boswell left Great Britain for a 'Grand Tour' of the Continent. The tour was a tradition among British and Scottish youths; by visiting the great historical sites, especially those of Roman and Greek antiquity, they would complete the studies they had begun at universities back home. Boswell's tour, however, was different: he was less concerned with the ruins of the past than the thinkers of the present. In particular, he was eager to question the leading figures of the Enlightenment on matters of faith and God--of particular importance to Boswell, who had been raised in the dour and dire atmosphere of the Church of Scotland. In his remarkable conversations with figures like Voltaire, Rousseau, and Hume, we see a man struggling with the claims of reason and needs of faith--a struggle that remains very much our own 250 years later"-- Provided by publisher.

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