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Record Nr.

UNINA9910156231803321

Autore

Kontler L

Titolo

Translations, Histories, Enlightenments : William Robertson in Germany, 1760-1795 / / by L. Kontler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014

ISBN

1-349-47575-0

1-137-37172-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

Disciplina

907.2/02

Soggetti

Great Britain—History

History, Modern

Europe—History

Europe, Central—History

Social history

History of Britain and Ireland

Modern History

European History

History of Germany and Central Europe

Social History

Germany Intellectual life 18th century

Scotland Intellectual life 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Robertson in Scotland and in Europe; Translation, reception, "influence"; Spaces and places, regional and institutional contexts; Situating Robertson, situating the Enlightenment; 1 Politics, Literature, and Science: William Robertson and Historical Discourses in Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Germany; Stages, conjectures, narratives: Scottish history and the science of man; Varieties of Geschichte, toward Wissenschaft; 2 Time and Progress, Time as Progress: History by Way of Enlightened Preaching



Agency and event, Christian and other times: "progressive revelation"An unnoticed translation; Baumgarten and Semler: history and the religious Enlightenment in Germany; Lessing: progressive revelation remastered; Michaelis: Göttingen and the cultural approach to Christianity; 3 A Different View of the Progress of Society in Europe; Manners and sociocultural dynamics; An "exotic" interlude; Some interlocutors; Sitten and ethnocultural specifics; 4 Scottish Histories and German Identities; Scotland and Charles V: Robertson's making of modern Europe; Rendering "national" history

German Robertsons?5 Maps of Mankind; Robertson's "global histories"; America: savages and "imperfectly civilized"; India: civilization subdued; Translating the history of mankind: terminologies and interlocutors; Landlocked gazes at the new worlds and Oriental lures; Robertson and Forster: strange bedfellows?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Historian and minister William Robertson was a central Scottish Enlightenment figure whose influence reached well beyond the boundaries of the British Isles. In this reception study of Robertson's work, Laszlo Kontler shows how the reception of Robertson's major histories in Germany tests the limits of intellectual transfer through translation.