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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811731803321

Autore

Wetters Kirk

Titolo

The opinion system : impasses of the public sphere from Hobbes to Habermas / / Kirk Wetters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8232-3576-9

0-8232-4824-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (311 p.)

Disciplina

303.3/801

Soggetti

Public opinion

Opinion (Philosophy)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fama and fatum in Virgil's Aeneid -- Manifestations of the public sphere in Christoph Martin Wieland -- Nomos, Gnomae (the council of war) -- Representation and opinion (Koselleck, Habermas, Derrida) -- Politics and belief (the parable of the sower) -- The opinion system and the re-formation of the individual (Hobbes, Locke, Mendelssohn, Fichte, and Goethe) -- Polystrophon gnoman (Pindar and Holderlin) -- Lichtenberg's "opinions-system" (Meinungen-system).

Sommario/riassunto

This title revises the concept of the public sphere by examining opinion as a foundational concept of modernity. It focuses on interpretive shifts begun in the Enlightenment and cemented by the French Revolution to restore the concept of 'opinion' to a central role in our understanding of the political public sphere.