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The opinion system : impasses of the public sphere from Hobbes to Habermas / Kirk Wetters.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wetters, Kirk.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public opinion.
- Opinion (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title revises the concept of the public sphere by examining opinion as a foundational concept of modernity. It focuses on interpretive shifts begun in the Enlightenment and cemented by the French Revolution to restore the concept of 'opinion' to a central role in our understanding of the political public sphere.
- 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 Holderlin)
- Lichtenberg's "opinions-system" (Meinungen-system).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-3576-9
- 0-8232-4824-0
- OCLC:
- 801846612
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