Enlightenment and community : Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the quest for a German public
Shows that the Enlightenment was a diverse, reformist enterprise with strong communitarian elements. This book examines the writings of GE Lessing, Thomas Abbt, and JG Herder - three seminal figures of the German Enlightenment - in their social and intellectual context.
Print Book, English, ©2000
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, ©2000
263 pages ; 24 cm
9780773510265, 0773510265
42952676
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