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1 online resource (xix, 301 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Translator's Note; Author's Preface; I: Introduction: Preliminary Demarcation of a Type of Bourgeois Public Sphere; 1 The Initial Question; 2 Remarks on the Type of Representative Publicness; 3 On the Genesis of the Bourgeois Public Sphere; II: Social Structures of the Public Sphere; 4 The Basic Blueprint; 5 Institutions of the Public Sphere; 6 The Bourgeois Family and the Institutionalization of a Privateness Oriented to an Audience; 7 The Public Sphere in the World of Letters in Relation to the Public Sphere in the Political Realm |
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III: Political Functions of the Public Sphere8 The Model Case of British Development; 9 The Continental Variants; 10 Civil Society as the Sphere of Private Autonomy: Private Law and a Liberalized Market; 11 The Contradictory Institutionalization of the Public Sphere in the Bourgeois Constitutional State; IV: The Bourgeois Public Sphere: Idea and Ideology; 12 Public Opinion-Opinion Publique-Öffentliche Meinung: On the Prehistory of the Phrase; 13 Publicity as the Bridging Principle between Politics and Morality (Kant); 14 On the Dialectic of the Public Sphere (Hegel and Marx) |
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15 The Ambivalent View of the Public Sphere in theTheory of Liberalism (John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville)V: The Social-Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere; 16 The Tendency toward a Mutual Infiltration of Public and Private Spheres; 17 The Polarization of the Social Sphere and the Intimate Sphere; 18 From a Culture-Debating (kulturräsonierend) to a Culture-Consuming Public; 19 The Blurred Blueprint: Developmental Pathways in the Disintegration of the Bourgeois Public Sphere; VI: The Transformation of the Public Sphere's Political Function |
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20 From the Journalism of Private Men of Letters to the Public Consumer Services of the Mass Media: The Public Sphere as a Platform for Advertising21 The Transmuted Function of the Principle of Publicity; 22 Manufactured Publicity and Nonpublic Opinion: The Voting Behavior of the Population; 23 The Political Public Sphere and the Transformation of the Liberal Constitutional State into a Social-Welfare State; VII: On the Concept of Public Opinion; 24 Public Opinion as a Fiction of Constitutional Law-and the Social-Psychological Liquidation of the Concept |
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25 A Sociological Attempt at ClarificationNotes; Preface; 1 Introduction: Preliminary Demarcation of a Type of Bourgeois Public Sphere; II Social Structures of the Public Sphere; III Political Functions of the Public Sphere; IV The Bourgeois Public Sphere: Idea and Ideology; V The Social-Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere; VI Transformation of the Public Sphere's Political Function; VII On the Concept of Public Opinion; Index |
| Summary |
This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest. In analysing the historical transformations of this sphere, Habermas recovers a concept which is of crucial significance for current debates in social and political theory. Habermas focuses on the liberal notion of the bourgeois public sphere as it emerged in Europe in the early modern period. He examines both the writings of political theorists, including Marx, Mill and de Tocqueville, and t |
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Translation of: Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed June 29, 2015) |
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Sociology -- Methodology.
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Social structure.
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Public interest.
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Middle class.
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Political sociology
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social structure.
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public interest.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Middle class
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Political sociology
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Public interest
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Social structure
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Sociology -- Methodology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Burger, Thomas, translator
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Lawrence, Frederick, translator
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| ISBN |
9780745692333 |
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0745692338 |
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9780745694146 |
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0745694144 |
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