Description: Translating the Enlightenment Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany Author(s): Fania Oz-Salzberger Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Clarendon Press ISBN-13: 9780198205197, 978-0198205197 Synopsis This is a study of the transmission of political ideas across languages and cultures, and in particular of a notably fruitful encounter between two distinct branches of eighteenth-century political discourse: the reception of Scottish civic ideas, developed most powerfully in the works of the Edinburgh historian-philosopher Adam Ferguson, by Geman intellectuals of the Enlightenment and Romantic eras. Fania Oz-Salzberger's detailed and challenging analysis places Ferguson in the context of the Scottish Enlightenment, and explores the impact of his theories on German Enlightenment thinkers. She traces the passage of Ferguson's civic humanism across linguistic and cultural borders, and highlights the linguistic stumbling-blocks and conceptual tensions that resulted. Dr Oz-Salzberger argues that there resulted a complex and largely unintentional shift of Scottish civic concepts into a German vocabulary of spiritual perfection and inner life, and that the misreading of Ferguson and other Scottish thinkers contributed much to the richness of German intellectual life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Book Title: Translating the Enlightenment
Number of Pages: 366 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Translating the Enlightenment: Scottish Civic Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 1995
Subject: History
Item Height: 223 mm
Item Weight: 607 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Fania Oz-Salzberger
Subject Area: Political Science
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
Item Width: 143 mm
Format: Hardcover
