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Masses, classes and the public sphere / edited by Mike Hill and Warren Montag. - viii, 276 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: What Was, What Is, the Public Sphere? Post-Cold War Reflections -- Inventing London -- The Right to the City in Los Angeles: Discourse and Practice of a Chicano Alternative Public Sphere -- Rituals of Disqualification: Competing Publics and Public Housing in Contemporary Chicago -- Unions as Counter-Public Spheres -- What Makes a People a People? Rousseau and Kant -- The Pressure of the Street: Habermas's Fear of the Masses -- A Displaced Transition: Habermas on the Public Sphere -- The Withering of Civil Society -- Print-Capitalism? -- Of Multitudes and Moral Sympathy: E. P. Thompson, Althusser, and Adam Smith -- Native Daughters in the Promised Land: Gender, Race, and the Question of Separate Spheres -- Counter-Public Spheres and the Role of Educators as Public Intellectuals: Paulo Freire's Cultural Politics -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

ISBN: 1859847773 9781859847770

LCCN: 00061438

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociology--Methodology
Social classes
Social structure
Mass society
Public interest
Political sociology

LC Class. No.: HM511. / M37 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 301.01