Enlightenment and CommunityJrgen Habermas' pioneering work has provoked intense discussion about the rise of a modern public sphere and civil society. Redekop revises and expands the Habermasian thesis by demonstrating that, rather than being particularly "bourgeois," the eighteenth century German public was a problematic, amorphous entity that was not based on a single social grouping a beckoning figure that led Lessing, Abbt, and Herder on unique but comparable quests to give