| Description |
1 online resource (262 pages) |
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 28 |
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 28
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 a problematic, amorphous entity that was not based on a single social grouping - a beckoning figure that led Lessing, Abbt, and Herder on unique but comparable quests to give it shape and form. His perspective provides an important new understanding of the work of authors who have often been placed in overly narrow and restrictive categories |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781 -- Political and social views
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Abbt, Thomas, 1738-1766 -- Political and social views
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Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803 -- Political and social views
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Abbt, Thomas, 1738-1766 fast |
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Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803 fast |
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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781 fast |
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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. swd |
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Abbt, Thomas (Philosoph, 1738-1766) swd |
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Herder, Johann Gottfried von. swd |
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Enlightenment -- Germany
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Rationalism.
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Lessing -- Gotthold Ephraim -- 1729-1781.
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Abbt -- Thomas.
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Herder -- Johann Gottfried -- 1744-1803.
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Enlightenment -- Germany.
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Germany -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
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Enlightenment
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Political and social views
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Aufklärung
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Schriftsteller
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Rezeption
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Zeitgenossen
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Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
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Publiek.
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Germany
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Deutschland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
00691216 |
| ISBN |
9780773564190 |
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0773564195 |
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1282856553 |
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9781282856554 |
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9786612856556 |
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6612856556 |
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