Translating the enlightenment : Scottish civic discourse in eighteenth-century Germany

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Label

Translating the enlightenment : Scottish civic discourse in eighteenth-century Germany

Title remainder

Scottish civic discourse in eighteenth-century Germany

Statement of responsibility

Fania Oz-Salzberger

Creator

• Oz-Salzberger, Fania

Subject

• Enlightenment -- Germany
• Enlightenment -- Scotland
• Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816
• Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
• Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
• Political science -- Scotland -- History
• Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
• Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
• Culture diffusion -- Germany -- History -- 18th century

Language

eng

Summary

This study examines 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 in a way which opened up fruitful insights

Dewey number

320.094309033

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Target audience

specialized