The opinion system : impasses of the public sphere from Hobbes to Habermas / Kirk Wetters.

Author/creator Wetters, Kirk
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
Descriptionxvi, 292 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Fama and fatum in Virgil's Aeneid -- Manifestations of the public sphere in Christoph Martin Wieland -- Nomos, Gnomae (the council of war) -- Representation and opinion (Koselleck, Habermas, Derrida) -- Politics and belief (the parable of the sower) -- The opinion system and the re-formation of the individual (Hobbes, Locke, Mendelssohn, Fichte, and Goethe) -- Polystrophon gnoman (Pindar and Hölderlin) -- Lichtenberg's "opinions-system" (Meinungen-system).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-283) and index.
LCCN 2008016403
ISBN9780823229888 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0823229882 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HM 1236 .W48 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold