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Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Translating the Enlightenment Scottish Civic Discourse in EighteenthCentury Germany - Oxford Historical Monographs Author:Fania Oz-Salzberger 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.