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Most contemporary conceptualizations of the public sphere are based on the ideas expressed in Jürgen Habermas' book The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere – An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, which is a translation of his Habilitationsschrift, Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit:Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der ...
Sep 15, 2023 · The bourgeois public sphere is constituted by an ideological separation between public and private. The state and politics are deemed “public”, whereas civil society, the market economy, and the family are deemed “private”. The public sphere, according to Habermas, mediates between these two realms (1962 [1989: 30]).
The public sphere is seen as a domain of social life where public opinion can be formed. (Habermas, 1991, 398) It can be seen as the breeding ground, if you want. Habermas declares several aspects as vital for the public sphere. Mainly it is open to all citizens and constituted in every conversation in which individuals come together to form a ...
- mwengenmeir
- 2014
Aug 20, 2021 · This introduction to the special issue ‘Habermas, Democracy, and the Public Sphere: Theory and Practice’ shows how Habermas’s work in different scientific domains contributes to the construction of the ‘project of modernity’ from the many angles that such a complex project requires. The public sphere is, in Habermas’s theory, the ...
- Gabriele De Angelis
- 2021
Sep 5, 2022 · The political public sphere is important for democracy, and it is changing – this is how the quintessence of Jürgen Habermas’s monumental study on The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1989) could be summarized in simple words. In the fields of political sociology and social theory, history, but also research on social ...
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Jürgen Habermas first articulated his idea of a “public sphere” (German: öffentlichkeit) in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1962, translated to English in 1989). Describing the öffentlichkeit as “a realm of our social life in which something approaching public opinion can be formed,” and into which “ [a]ccess is ...
mation of the Public Sphere), first published in 1962 and reprinted four. times since. With this work, the young philosopher and social theoretician, Jiirgen Habermas, established his reputation. Originally written as a Habili-. tationsschrift for a small circle of scholars, Strukturwandel der Oeffentlich-.
