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ENLIGHTENMENT AND COMMUNITY

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MCGILL-QUEEN'S STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF IDEAS
1 Problems of Cartesianism
Edited by Thomas M. Lennon, John M. Nicholas, and
John W. Davis
2 The Development of the Idea of History in Antiquity
Gerald A. Press
3 Claude Buffier and Thomas Reid
Two Common-Sense Philosophers

Louise Marcil-Lacoste
4 Schiller, Hegel, and Marx
State, Society, and the Aesthetic Ideal of Ancient Greece

Philip J. Kain
5 John Case and Aristotelianism in Renaissance England
Charles B. Schmitt
6 Beyond Liberty and Property
The Process of Self-Recognition in Eighteenth-Century
Political Thought

J. A.W. Gunn
7 John Toland: His Methods, Manners, and Mind
Stephen H. Daniel
8 Coleridge and the Inspired Word
Anthony John Harding
9 The Jena System, 1804-5: Logic and Metaphysics
G. W.F. Hegel
Translation edited by John W. Burbidge and George di Giovanni
Introduction and notes by H.S. Harris

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10 Consent, Coercion, and Limit
The Medieval Origins of Parliamentary Democracy

Arthur P. Monahan
11 Scottish Common Sense in Germany, 1768-1800
A Contribution to the History of Critical Philosophy

Manfred Kuehn
12 Paine and Cobbett
The Transatlantic Connection

David A. Wilson
13 Descartes and the Enlightenment
Peter A. Schouls
14 Greek Scepticism
Anti-Realist Trends in Ancient Thought

Leo Groarke
15 The Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought
Donald Wiebe
16 Form and Transformation
A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus

Frederic M. Schroeder
17 From Personal Duties towards Personal Rights
Late Medieval and Early Modern Political Thought, 1300-1600

Arthur P. Monahan
18 The Main Philosophical Writings and the Novel Allwill
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi Translated and edited by George di Giovanni
19 Kierkegaard as Humanist
Discovering My Self

Arnold B. Come

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20 Durkheim, Morals, and Modernity
W. Watts Miller
21 The Career of Toleration
John Locke, Jonas Proast, and After

Richard Vernon
22 Dialectic of Love
Platonism in Schiller's Aesthetics

David Pugh
23 History and Memory in Ancient Greece
Gordon Shrimpton
24 Kierkegaard as Theologian
Recovering My Self

Arnold B. Come
25 An Enlightenment Tory in Victorian Scotland
The Career of Sir Archibald Alison

Michael Michie
26 The Road to Egdon Heath
The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature

Richard Bevis
27 Jena Romanticism and Its Appropriation of Jakob Bhme
Theosophy -- Hagiography -- Literature

Paolo Mayer
28 Enlightenment and Community:
Lessing, Abbt, Herder, and the
Quest for a German Public

Benjamin W. Redekop

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ENLIGHTENMENT AND COMMUNITY Lessing, Abbt, Herder, and the Quest for a German Public

Benjamin W. Redekop

McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal & Kingston London Ithaca

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McGill-Queen's University Press 2000

ISBN 0-7735-1026-5

Legal deposit first quarter 2000 Bibliothque nationale du Qubec

Printed in Canada on acid-free paper

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Parts of chapter 3 are reprinted from Benjamin W. Redekop, "Thomas Abbt and the Formation of an Enlightened German 'Public,'" Journal of the History of Ideas 58, no. 1 ( Jan. 1997): 81-103, 1997 Journal of the History of Ideas, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the Johns Hopkins University Press. Parts of chapter 4 are reprinted from Benjamin W. Redekop, "Language, Literature, and Publikum: Herder's Quest for Organic Enlightenment," History of European Ideas 14, no. 2 ( 1992): 235-53, 1992, with permission from Elsevier Science.

McGill-Queen's University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for its activities. We also acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program.

Canada

Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data

Redekop, Benjamin Wall, 1961Enlightenment and community: Lessing, Abbt, Herder and the quest for a German public (McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas; 28) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7735-1026-5

1. Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781 -- Political and social views. 2. Abbt, Thomas, 1738-1766 -- Political and social views. 3. Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803 -- Political and social views. 4. Enlightenment -- Germany. I. Title. II. Series.

B2621.R43 2000 193 C99-900936-2

This book was typeset by Typo Litho Composition Inc. in 10/12 Baskerville.

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Public Writers and the Problem of Publikum
2 United and Yet Divided:
Lessing's Constitution of an
Enlightened German Public
3 Inscribing a Public Sphere of Citizens:
Thomas Abbt's Response to the
Problem of Publikum
4 Language, Literature, and Publikum:
Herder's Vision of Organic Enlightenment
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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Acknowledgments

Funding for the research and writing of this book was provided by fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Killam Trusts, and the University of British Columbia. I am very grateful for this support.

I also owe a debt of gratitude to President Gordon Johnson and the Fellows of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, for support given me during a period of research and writing as a research fellow of the College. I would like to thank Harvey Mitchell, W. Alan Tully, Thomas Salumets, Hans Erich Bdeker, Hans Adler, and Allan Smith for helpful critique, comments, and encouragement along the way. Roger Martin of McGill-Queen's University Press has been a very supportive editor, and Susan Kent Davidson has been a very helpful copy editor: thanks to them and to the others at the press who have been involved in bringing this project to completion. I am also grateful to the anonymous readers who took the time to read and comment upon the manuscript.

I would especially like to thank E.J. Hundert for his long-standing and generous support of my work; this book is dedicated to him. And many thanks to my wife Fran for her encouragement and companionship throughout the long process of research and writing.

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