03872nam 2200697 a 450 991045052900332120200520144314.01-280-46743-697866104674331-4237-1221-890-474-0218-910.1163/9789047402183(CKB)1000000000033042(EBL)253617(OCoLC)171583191(SSID)ssj0000142327(PQKBManifestationID)11148819(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142327(PQKBWorkID)10092105(PQKB)10237106(MiAaPQ)EBC253617(nllekb)BRILL9789047402183(PPN)17074325X(Au-PeEL)EBL253617(CaPaEBR)ebr10090509(CaONFJC)MIL46743(OCoLC)606481060(EXLCZ)99100000000003304220030423d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEarly French and German defenses of freedom of the press[electronic resource] Elie Luzac's essay on Freedom of expression, 1749 and Carl Friedrich Bahrdt's On freedom of the press and its limits, 1787 in English translation /edited by John Christion Laursen and Johan van der ZandeLeiden ;Boston Brill20031 online resource (187 p.)Brill's studies in intellectual history,0920-8607 ;v. 113Description based upon print version of record.90-04-13017-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material /John Christian Laursen and Johan van der Zande -- General Introduction /John Christian Laursen and Johan van der Zande -- Introduction to Elie Luzac, An Essay on Freedom of Expression (1749) /Wyger R.E. Velema -- An Essay on Freedom of Expression /Elie Luzac -- Introduction to Carl Friedrich Bahrdt, On Freedom of the Press and Its Limits (1787) /John Christian Laursen and Johan van der Zande -- On Freedom of the Press and its Limits: For Consideration by Rulers, Censors, and Writers /Carl Friedrich Bahrdt -- Index /John Christian Laursen and Johan van der Zande.This volume contains English translations of two important early French and German defences of freedom of the press. Almost unknown in the English-speaking world, these texts demonstrate that freedom of the press was an important issue in other parts of Europe in the early modern period, giving rise to articulate theories. Elie Luzac's Essay on Freedom of Expression (1749) defended freedom of the press for atheists on natural law and other grounds. Carl Friedrich Bahrdt's On Freedom of the Press and its Limits (1787) drew on natural law, religious rhetoric, and political journalism to make the case for understanding freedom of the press as a human right. Together, these texts show that the French and German traditions included their own intellectual resources for defending modern rights, before the American Bill of Rights and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man.Brill's studies in intellectual history ;v. 113.Freedom of the pressFranceFreedom of the pressGermanyElectronic books.Freedom of the pressFreedom of the press323.44/5/0943Laursen John Christian281608Zande Johan van der948324Luzac Elie1721-1796.948325Bahrdt Karl Friedrich1741-1792.948326MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450529003321Early French and German defenses of freedom of the press2143404UNINA