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Translating the Enlightenment : Scottish civic discourse in eighteenth-century Germany
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oz-Salzberger, Fania, Author.
- Series:
- Oxford historical monographs.
- Oxford historical monographs Translating the Enlightenment
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ferguson, Adam, 1723-1816.
- Ferguson, Adam.
- Culture diffusion--History--18th century--Germany.
- Culture diffusion.
- Enlightenment--History--Germany.
- Enlightenment.
- Political science--Scotland.
- Political science.
- Enlightenment--Scotland.
- Germany--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Germany.
- Germany--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Scotland--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Scotland.
- Scotland--Intellectual life--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 356 p.).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany. Oxford Historical Monographs
- Translating the enlightenment
- Oxford historical monographs
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-76722-7
- OCLC:
- 1027197551
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