The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Produktbeschreibung

aeo This early book by Habermas is in fact one of his most important works. aeo The concept of the public sphere is now very topical and is directly relevant to current debates about television, newspapers, and the role of the media in politics. aeo This early book by Habermas is in fact one of his most important works. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction by Thomas McCarthy.
Part I. Preliminary Demarcation of a Type of Bourgeois PublicSphere.

Part II. Social Structures of the Public Sphere.

Part III. Political Functions of the Public Sphere.

Part IV. The Bourgeois Public Sphere: Idea and Ideology.

Part V. The Social-Structural Transformation of the PublicSphere.

Part VI. The Transformation of the Public Sphere s PoliticalFunction.

Notes.

Index. 

Kritik

Why is this such a vital study? Its significance rests in itsanalysis of one of the central notions on which both our politicallife and our political theories rest: public opinion .Presidential candidates worry about it, the press talks about it,political scientists try to measure it, but Habermas is one of thefew people to have actually sat down and tried to think about it, to ask what it means to have an opinion that is notprivate, not idiosyncratic, but rather public .
James Schmidt, Boston University 

Autoreninfo

Jürgen Habermas is the author of numerous works including The New Conservatism (Polity 1990), The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity (Polity 1991), and Postmetaphysical Thinking (Polity 1992).