Enlightenment and community
Subtitle: Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the quest for a German public
By: Benjamin W. Redekop.
Series: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;; 28
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: 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; Enlightenment -- Germany
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Public Writers and the Problem of Publikum 29; title: 2 United and Yet Divided: Lessing's Constitution of an; title: Enlightened German Public 58; title: 3 Inscribing a Public Sphere of Citizens: Thomas Abbt's Response to the; title: Problem of Publikum 123; title: 4 Language, Literature, and Publikum:; title: Herder's Vision of Organic Enlightenment 168.