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

By: Wetters, Kirk.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2008Edition: 1st ed.Description: xvi, 292 p.Subject(s): Public opinion | Opinion (Philosophy)Genre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 303.3/801 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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).

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.