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.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 193
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9780773564190 0773510265
- LCCN
- B2621
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- R43 2000eb
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (262 p.)
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- Canada
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00200614 (CaBNVSL)slc00200614 (CaBNVSL) (CaBNVSL)gtp00523324 (OCoLC)181843650 (CaOOCEL)400845
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 14
- 1 Public Writers and the Problem of Publikum 40
- 2 United and Yet Divided: Lessing's Constitution of an Enlightened German Public 69
- 3 Inscribing a Public Sphere of Citizens: Thomas Abbt's Response to the Problem of Publikum 134
- 4 Language, Literature, and Publikum: Herder's Vision of Organic Enlightenment 179
- Conclusion 232
- Bibliography 252
- Index 270
- A 270
- B 270
- C 270
- D 271
- E 271
- F 271
- G 271
- H 271
- I 272
- J 272
- K 272
- L 272
- M 272
- N 272
- O 272
- P 272
- Q 273
- R 273
- S 273
- T 273
- U 274
- V 274
- W 274
- Y 274
- Z 274