Early French and German defenses of freedom of the press : 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
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Early French and German defenses of freedom of the press : 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
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 113）
Brill, 2003
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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.
Table of Contents
General Introduction, John Christian Laursen & Johan van der Zande
Introduction to Elie Luzac, An Essay on Freedom of Expression (1749), Wyger R. E. Velema
Elie Luzac, An Essay on Freedom of Expression, Translated from the French by John Paul McDonald
Introduction to Carl Friedrich Bahrdt, On Freedom of the Press and Its Limits (1787), John Christian Laursen & Johan van der Zande
Carl Friedrich Bahrdt, On Freedom of the Press and Its Limits, Translated from the German by John Christian Laursen & Johan van der Zande
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