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

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pp. [3] 263.”The author 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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ISBN 0773510265
ISBN13 9780773510265
Number of pages 263
Original Title Enlightenment and Community: Lessing, Abbt, Herder, and the Quest for a German Public
Published Date 2000
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition No Dj
Binding Hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication Montreal
Edition First Edition
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pp. [3] 263.”The author 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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Weight 1 kg