| Enlightenment and Community Subjects: Lessing Gotthold Ephraim 1729-1781 -- Political and social views; Abbt Thomas 1738-1766 -- Political and social views; Herder Johann Gottfried 1744-1803 -- Political and social views; Enlightenment -- Germany; In an age when it has become fashionable to dismiss the Enlightenment as a sinister movement based on instrumental rationality, Benjamin Redekop delves deeper to understand the movement on its own terms. In Enlightenment and Community he shows that the E |