Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany by Fania Oz-Salzberger

Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany

Fania Oz-Salzberger

368 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics informative reflective medium-paced

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This is a study of how political ideas travel across languages and cultures. It examines the reception in Germany of the civic theories of the Scottish Enlightenment thinker Adam Ferguson, and shows how German intellectuals misread his work, but i...

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