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The Opinion System : Impasses of the Public Sphere from Hobbes to Habermas /

This book revises the concept of the public sphere by examining opinion as a foundational concept of modernity. Indispensable to ideas like "public opinion" and "freedom of opinion," opinion-though sometimes held in dubious repute-here assumes a central position in modern philoso...

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Autor principal: Wetters, Kirk (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: The Opinion Machine
  • Introduction and Overview
  • Excursus 1 Fama and Fatum in Virgil's Aeneid
  • Chapter 1 Manifestations of the Public Sphere in Christoph Martin Wieland
  • Excursus 2 Nomos, Gnomae (the Council of War)
  • Chapter 2 Representation and Opinion (Koselleck, Habermas, Derrida)
  • Excursus 3 Politics and Belief (The Parable of the Sower)
  • Chapter 3 The Opinion System and the Re-Formation of the Individual (Hobbes, Locke, Mendelssohn, Fichte, and Goethe)
  • Excursus 4 Polystrophon Gnoman (Pindar and Hölderlin)
  • Chapter 4 Lichtenberg's ''Opinions-System'' (Meinungen-System)
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index