The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe

(Book #23 in the New Approaches to European History Series)

by James Van Horn Melton

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James Melton's accessible study examines the rise of the public in eighteenth-century Europe. Focusing on England, France, and the German-speaking territories, this is the first critical reassessment of what the philosopher J?rgen Habermas called the bourgeois public sphere of the eighteenth century. Topics include the growing importance of public opinion in political life, transformations of the literary public realm, eighteenth-century authorship,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521469694

ISBN13:9780521469692

Release Date:October 2001

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:300 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Europe History Ireland Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Western World

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