04766nam 22007815 450 991015623180332120200919013715.01-349-47575-01-137-37172-210.1057/9781137371720(CKB)2670000000567188(EBL)1765707(SSID)ssj0001288032(PQKBManifestationID)11723571(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001288032(PQKBWorkID)11290781(PQKB)10607005(MiAaPQ)EBC1765707(DE-He213)978-1-137-37172-0(EXLCZ)99267000000056718820151201d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTranslations, Histories, Enlightenments[electronic resource] William Robertson in Germany, 1760-1795 /by L. Kontler1st ed. 2014.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2014.1 online resource (273 p.)Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual HistoryDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-04800-2 1-137-37171-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 PreachingAgency 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" historyGerman 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; IndexHistorian 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.Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual HistoryGreat Britain—HistoryHistory, ModernEurope—HistoryEurope, Central—HistorySocial historyHistory of Britain and Irelandhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020Modern Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/713000European Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717000History of Germany and Central Europehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717060Social Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000GermanyIntellectual life18th centuryScotlandIntellectual life18th centuryGreat 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.907.2/02Kontler Lauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1243941BOOK9910156231803321Translations, Histories, Enlightenments2885355UNINA