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

Lecturer in Modern History Fania Oz-Salzberger
Clarendon Press
 9780198205197
0-19-820519-8

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.

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German intellectuals misread his work, but in a way which opened up many fruitful insights.