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The opinion system : impasses of the public sphere from Hobbes to Habermas / Kirk Wetters.
LIBRA HM1236 .W48 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wetters, Kirk.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public opinion.
- Opinion (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 292 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
- 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).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823229888
- 0823229882
- OCLC:
- 226291728
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