HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Montesquieu, Baruch Spinoza, Olympe De Gouges
27 Sep 2013
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The public sphere and broadening conversations: print and the mobility of knowledge. In london they really take off: increase sixfold: periodical journals, republic of letters (1) they provide a forum of intellectual exchange on a variety of different topics (1) Increasingly common as coffee shifted from a luxury item to a mainstream commodity (3) linked to sobriety (a) provided an alternate venue for respectable people to come together and discuss things i) Invited intellectually curious men of means: aristocrats, intellectuals and bourgeoisie (not manual labor, lending libraries (1) emerge in paris, london, milan and berlin (2) Increased literacy allows for this to come about (a) roughly half the male population of states in europe can read. 3: access can never truly be open, denial that a public sphere can ever be unified or rational. I. e rousseau wrote in favor of republics (1) so france banned it.
