The intellectual background and cultural legacy of Patrick Geddes Patrick Geddes is one of Scotland's most remarkable thinkers of the late 19th- and early 20th-century. His environmental and cultural message endures today, but until now the Scottish context to his thinking has not been properly acknowledged. This book changes that, situating Geddes within a distinctly Scottish intellectual background, and exploring his substantial national and international advocacy of art, architecture, ecology, literature, planning, geography and Celtic studies. Key Features  Explores Patrick Geddes's Scottish intellectual background in depth for the first time, drawing on George Davie's notion of the democratic intellect  Highlights his insistence on the interdisciplinary importance of arts and sciences  Considers his achievements from his pioneering work in Edinburgh and Dundee and his leadership of the Celtic revival, to his influence in Paris, London and India Murdo Macdonald is Emeritus Professor of History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee. He was appointed an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture in 2009 and an honorary fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies in 2016.

Chapter 1 Patrick Geddes and the Scottish Intellectual TraditionA generalist among generalists Disciplines and interdisciplinarity Visual thinking and interdisciplinarity Presbyterianism and interdisciplinarity Art and scienceChapter 2 Geography, History and PlaceBallater and Perth The Black Watch Garden and world Dundee, Edinburgh and London France and MexicoChapter 3 Arts, Crafts and Social ReformEdinburgh in the 1880s The Edinburgh Social Union James Mavor and The Scottish Arts Review The Arts and Crafts Congress of 1889Chapter 4 Patrick Geddes, D'Arcy Thompson and the Early Years of University College DundeeThe Dundee Naturalists' Society Patronage for a ProfessorChapter 5 Education, Anarchism and Celtic Revival in EdinburghUniversity Hall: buildings as interdisciplinary educationA party with KropotkinThe New EvergreenChapter 6 Manifestos in Word and ImageThe murals of Ramsay Garden The Evergreen: A Northern SeasonalChapter 7 Models of CelticismThe Celtic Library William Sharp and Alexander CarmichaelChapter 8 Interdisciplinarity and Cultural RevivalAn international summer meeting The Outlook Tower as generalist collegeChapter 9 Paris 1900: Local Revival as Global ProjectThe Paris Universal Exhibition Looking to India: Geddes, Vivekananda and NiveditaChapter 10 City Development as Interdisciplinary ProjectThe Dunfermline Plan: institutes of science, history and artCities in evolutionChapter 11 Ecological Research in DundeeEcology as a science: Geddes's students and Bartholomew's mapping The British Association Meeting of 1912Chapter 12 Dramatising the Past and Informing the FutureMasques of learning Saint Columba as point of reference Coomaraswamy, Indian art, and Celticism Encyclopaedias and colleges Publishing and the masquesChapter 13 Looking EastBaha'ism and Theosophy Celtic revival and Bengali revival Scottish interdisciplinarity in Indian reflection Sunwise turn and dance of ShivaChapter 14 A Farewell LectureMoving on from DundeeAn Italian codaAppendix 1 Patrick Geddes: a visual primer in ten imagesAppendix 2 List of Murdo Macdonald's writings about Patrick Geddes and his milieu