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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825028403321

Autore

Redekop Benjamin W. <1961->

Titolo

Enlightenment and community : Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the quest for a German public / / Benjamin W. Redekop

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, NY, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000

ISBN

1-282-85655-3

9786612856556

0-7735-6419-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

262 p. ; ; 24 cm

Collana

McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; ; 28

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Enlightenment - Germany

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: 1 Public Writers and the Problem of Publikum 29 -- 2 United and Yet Divided: Lessing's Constitution of an -- Enlightened German Public 58 -- 3 Inscribing a Public Sphere of Citizens: Thomas Abbt's Response to the -- Problem of Publikum 123 -- 4 Language, Literature, and Publikum: -- Herder's Vision of Organic Enlightenment 168.

Sommario/riassunto

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.