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The Rhetorical Theory of Henry Home, Lord Kames
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Enlightened Agricultural Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Scotland
… Enlightenment “improvers,” like Henry Home, Lord Kames, demonstrate this push towards “progress.” In particular, Lord Kames represents a conundrum. He, like many other Scots, believed in the authenticity of Ossian’s translated poems by James Macpherson. This patriotic devotion to Scottish …
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Musica come Scienza dell'uomo. I caratteri del sapere musicale nel Settecento britannico
… sources (from John Locke, Joseph Addison and Lord Shaftesbury, to Lord Kames and Adam Smith), and we will examine their thoughts on music. In the second one we will deal with musical sources (from the Treatise of Musick of Alexander Malcom, to the Histories of Music of Charles Burney and John …
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Rhetoric and literary criticism in the early Scottish Enlightenment
… in critical theory of those individuals such as Lord Kames and Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh who did so away from the universities.
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Adaptations of the Beautiful: Natural Theological Aesthetics from Paley to Darwin
The goal of this thesis is to reassess our understanding of Charles Darwin’s theory of beauty by tracing the history of a distinctive aesthetic philosophy within the British natural theological tradition. I propose two new critical concepts as a way of characterising the common features of this …