Title Translating the Enlightenment : Scottish civic discourse in eighteenth-century Germany / Fania Oz-Salberger

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 356 pages) Series Oxford historical monographs Oxford historical monographs. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-339) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816. SUBJECT Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816. fast (OCoLC)fst00037570 Subject Enlightenment -- Scotland Political science -- Scotland -- History Enlightenment -- Germany Culture diffusion -- Germany -- History -- 18th century Civilization. Culture diffusion. Enlightenment. Intellectual life. Political science. Germany. Regions & Countries - Europe. History & Archaeology. SUBJECT Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054608 Germany -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054483 Germany -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054609 Subject Germany. Scotland. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 1280767227 9781280767227

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