Translations, Histories, Enlightenments [electronic resource] : William Robertson in Germany, 1760-1795 /
Kontler, L.author.
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.
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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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Robertson, William, 1721-1793.
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.