ABSTRACT
The Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment is a wonderfully comprehensive resource of state-of-the-art scholarship on the broad range of topics on which Scottish thinkers and writers produced such extraordinary works from the late seventeenth century to the end of the eighteenth. With an amazing cast of distinguished international scholars discussing virtually every aspect of Scottish thought, including its reception in Europe and America and its nineteenth-century aftermath, everyone from specialist to student will be able to find their way into the Scottish treasure trove. In what follows, I will mainly be describing these scholarly riches, with an occasional critical remark. I hope it goes without saying that I will not be able to discuss all of the seventeen contributions in even a cursory way. The usual disclaimers apply.
