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Republic of letters is a phrase describing the phenomenon of increased Correspondence in the form of Letter s exchanged between the influential Philosopher s and other thinkers during the Age Of Enlightenment . It is commonly used to denote a notion of an imaginary Space where free thinking people could exchange ideas. The Republic of Letters began as a network of private correspondence and evolved into the more complex and institutionalised system of Newspaper s and Academic Journal s. Recently, the notion of the Republic of Letters has been revived and used to refer to new phenomena, especially those related to the Internet , which enables even more rapid forms of Communication and led to the creation of new discussion networks that function without the intermediary figure of the Editor , like those of Usenet or Internet Forum s. However, modern day blogs and other forms of internet debate are not usually discussions between experts on the discussed topics, so the comparison to the Age of Enlightenment Republic of Letters may be imprecise. SEE ALSO |