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Enlightenment and Community : Lessing, Abbt, Herder, and the Quest for a German Public

1999

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.
germany enlightenment political and social views herder, johann gottfried, 1729-1781 1744-1803 1738-1766 lessing, gotthold ephraim, abbt, thomas,

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Benjamin W. Redekop

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Includes bibliographical references and index
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CaOOCEL
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193
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9780773564190 0773510265
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B2621
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R43 2000eb
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CaOONL
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1 electronic text (262 p.)
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Canada
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00200614 (CaBNVSL)slc00200614 (CaBNVSL) (CaBNVSL)gtp00523324 (OCoLC)181843650 (CaOOCEL)400845
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