Translating the Enlightenment
Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany
ISBN13: 9780198205197ISBN10: 0198205198
Hardback,
368 pages
Mar 1995,
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Description
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.Reviews
"She has presented a new horizon for German intellectual history, and many will welcome this work for the clarifications it offers to students of German thought."--American Historical Review
