Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Oxford Historical Monographs)
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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 in a way which opened up many fruitful insights.
Page Count:
368
Publication Date:
1995-04-13
ISBN-10:
0198205198
ISBN-13:
9780198205197
ENLIGHTENMENT
Scotland intellectual life
Germany
Germany civilization
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