03000nam 2200637 a 450 991078270860332120230912142544.01-282-85655-397866128565560-7735-6419-510.1515/9780773564190(CKB)1000000000713805(SSID)ssj0000279148(PQKBManifestationID)11212641(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279148(PQKBWorkID)10260028(PQKB)11144523(CaPaEBR)400845(Au-PeEL)EBL3330845(CaPaEBR)ebr10141515(CaONFJC)MIL285655(OCoLC)929121100(DE-B1597)654795(DE-B1597)9780773564190(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/xhk80t(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400845(MiAaPQ)EBC3330845(MiAaPQ)EBC3244644(EXLCZ)99100000000071380520000831d2000 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEnlightenment and community[electronic resource] Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the quest for a German public /Benjamin W. RedekopMontreal ;Ithaca, NY McGill-Queen's University Pressc2000262 p. ;24 cmMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;28Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7735-1026-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.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.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.McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;28.EnlightenmentGermanyEnlightenment193Redekop Benjamin W.1961-1480726MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782708603321Enlightenment and community3697453UNINA