Table of Contents:
  • 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.