Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany

ISBN-13: 9780198205197 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 368 str.

Fania Oz-Salzberger

Opis

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.

Recenzje

students of the period will find here many valuable discussions ranging well beyond the book's stated remit ... In particular the author offers clear and lively accounts of curricular innovations at the university of Göttingen ... this volume deserves the attention of both historians and literary critics, for it constitutes a major contribution not merely to our understanding of the intellectual relationships between Scotland and Germany in the eighteenth century, but also to the larger issue of how well enlightened political theory could travel beyond the context in which it was first devised and deployed ... written in a strikingly graceful and lucid style which itself provides an elegant rebuke to the failures in communication that the book laments