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Author Habermas, Jürgen.

Title The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society / Jürgen Habermas ; translated by Thomas Burger, with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1991.
©1989

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 Moore Stacks  HM24 .H2713 1991    Available  ---
Edition 1st MIT Press pbk. ed.
Description xix, 301 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Studies in contemporary German social thought
Studies in contemporary German social thought.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-298) and index.
Contents INTRODUCTION: PRELIMINARY DEMARCATION OF A TYPE OF BOURGEOIS PUBLIC SPHERE: The initial question -- Remarks on the type of representative publicness -- On the genesis of the bourgeois public sphere -- SOCIAL STRUCTURES OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE: The basic blueprint -- Institutions of the public sphere -- The bourgeois family and the institutionalization of a privateness oriented to an audience -- The public sphere in the world of letters in relation to the public sphere in the political realm -- THE POLITICAL FUNCTIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE: The model case of the British development -- The continental variants -- Civil society as the sphere of private autonomy: private law and a liberalized market -- The contradictory institutionalization of the public sphere in the bourgeois constitutional state -- THE BOURGEOIS PUBLIC OPINION: IDEA AND IDEOLOGY: Public opinion, Opinion publique, Offentliche meinung: on the prehistory of the phrase -- Publicity as the bridging principle between politics and morality (Kant) -- On the dialectic of the public sphere (Hegel and Marx) -- The ambivalent view of the public sphere in the theory of liberalism (John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville) -- THE SOCIAL-STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE: The tendency toward a mutual infiltration of public and private spheres -- The polarization of the social sphere and the intimate sphere -- From a cultural-debating (kulturrasonierend) public to a culture-consuming public -- The blurred blueprint: developmental pathways in the disintegration of the bourgeois public sphere -- THE TRANSPORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE'S POLITICAL FUNCTION: From the journalism of private men of letters to the public consumer services of the mass media: the public sphere as a platform for advertising -- The transmuted function of the principle of publicity -- Manufactured publicity and nonpublic opinion: the voting behavior of the population -- The political public sphere and the transformation of the liberal constitutional state into a social-welfare state -- ON THE CONCEPT OF PUBLIC OPINION: Public opinion as a fiction of constitutional law, and the social-psychological liquidation of the concept -- A sociological attempt at clarification.
Subject Sociology -- Methodology.
Sociology -- Methodology.
Social structure.
Social structure.
Public interest.
Public interest.
Middle class.
Middle class.
Political sociology.
Indexed Term Political science and theory
Sociology
Subject Political sociology.
Indexed Term Cultural studies
Subject Estrutura social.
Classe social.
Sociologia.
Added Title Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88119817
ISBN 0262581086 paperback
0262081806 hardback