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

• Autore: Wetters Kirk
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.3/801
• Soggetto topico: Public opinion; Opinion (Philosophy)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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 Hölderlin) -- 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The opinion system
• ISBN: 0-8232-3576-9; 0-8232-4824-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464709903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II