Mensch, Jennifer: Benjamin Franklin and Immanuel Kant in Berlin: Printing House, Press, and the Creation of the Public Sphere

_Intellectual History Review_. forthcomingHistorically oriented Kant commentators like John Zammito have long maintained that serious Kant scholarship must include attention to the socio-cultural influences on Kant and his contemporaries. While significant historiographical work has been done on Kant and the French Revolution, the impact of the American Revolution on German thinkers—and Benjamin Franklin’s role therein—has been comparatively understudied, with leading scholars suggesting that it