Wetters, Kirk.

The opinion system impasses of the public sphere from Hobbes to Habermas / [electronic resource] : Kirk Wetters. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2008. - xvi, 292 p.

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).


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