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Enlightenment and community : Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the quest for a German public

Title
Enlightenment and community : Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the quest for a German public / Benjamin W. Redekop.
Author
Redekop, Benjamin W., 1961-
Publication
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Description
262 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 28
Uniform Title
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 28.
Subject
  • Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781 > Political and social views
  • Abbt, Thomas, 1738-1766 > Political and social views
  • Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803 > Political and social views
  • Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781 > Pensée politique et sociale
  • Abbt, Thomas, 1738-1766 > Pensée politique et sociale
  • Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803 > Pensée politique et sociale
  • Enlightenment > Germany
  • Siècle des lumières > Allemagne
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Public Writers and the Problem of Publikum -- 2. United and Yet Divided: Lessing's Constitution of an Enlightened German Public -- 3. Inscribing a Public Sphere of Citizens: Thomas Abbt's Response to the Problem of Publikum -- 4. Language, Literature, and Publikum: Herder's Vision of Organic Enlightenment.
ISBN
0773510265 :
LCCN
cn 99900936
OCLC
  • 42952676
  • ocm42952676
  • SCSB-14276919
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries