Download or read book Early French and German defenses of freedom of the press [electronic resource] written by John Christian Laursen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains English translations of Elie Luzac's "Essay on Freedom of Expression" (1749) and Carl Friedrich Bahrdt's "On Freedom of the Press and its Limits" (1787). These texts demonstrate that the intellectual resources for defending modern intellectual freedom were not a monopoly of anglophone cultures.