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Translating the enlightenment Scottish civic discourse in eighteenth-century Germany
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Title
Translating the enlightenment [electronic resource] : Scottish civic discourse in eighteenth-century Germany / Fania Oz-Salzberger.
ISBN
9780191676543 (ebook) :
Published
Oxford : Clarendon, 1995.
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 356 p.).
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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.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
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September 03, 2015
Series
Oxford historical monographs
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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