Authority, Authorship, and Audience
Enlightenment Models for a Critical Public
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4370853 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dorothea Von Mücke (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 60-87 |
| Publication date | 2010-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Representations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0734-6018 • E-ISSN: 1533-855X |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/rep.2010.111.1.60 |
| OpenAlex | W2090796279 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This essay analyzes programmatic texts by Lessing and Kant in terms of how they influence the public sphere of the Enlightenment. Sharing a programmatic commitment to enlightenment as "the exit from our self-imposed tutelage," Lessing and Kant understood the enlightenment process as one that cannot be taught or imposed by some authority from above, nor can it ever be fully accomplished. For both philosophers, enlightenment calls for specific framing conditions that have to do with the abolishment of censorship, on the one hand, and with the recruitment of an active, critical audience, on the other
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Censorship · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |