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

• Autore: Redekop Benjamin W. <1961->
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, NY, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 262 p. ; ; 24 cm
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetto topico: Enlightenment - Germany
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Enlightenment and community
• ISBN: 1-282-85655-3; 9786612856556; 0-7735-6419-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825028403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; ; 28.