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Enlightenment and community : Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the quest for a German public /

Jürgen Habermas' pioneering work has provoked intense discussion about the rise of a modern public sphere and civil society. Redekop revises and expands the Habermasian thesis by demonstrating that, rather than being particularly "bourgeois," the eighteenth-century German public was...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Redekop, Benjamin W., 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2000.
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 28.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Public Writers and the Problem of Publikum
  • 2. United and Yet Divided: Lessing's Constitution of an Enlightened German Public
  • 3. Inscribing a Public Sphere of Citizens: Thomas Abbt's Response to the Problem of Publikum
  • 4. Language, Literature, and Publikum: Herder's Vision of Organic Enlightenment.