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Jürgen Habermas : democracy and the public sphere / Luke Goode.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern European thinkersPublisher: London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2005Description: vi, 165 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745320880
  • 0745320899
  • 9780745320885
  • 9780745320892
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23 22
LOC classification:
  • HM585 .G66 2005
Contents:
Introduction -- Excavations: the history of a concept -- The bourgeois public sphere -- The fall of the bourgeois public sphere -- Critical publicity and late capitalism -- Discursive testing: the public sphere and its critics -- Lessons from history -- Equality and emancipation -- Rationality and embodiment -- Reconfigurations: the public sphere since Structural Transformation -- Scientism and politics -- System, lifeworld and communicative action -- The politics of the other -- Mediations: from the coffee house to the Internet café -- The fall of the agora -- A public sphere in bits? -- Unfinished projects: reflexive democracy -- Reflexive agency -- Risk and reflexivity -- Revisiting the public sphere.
Summary: Habermas is a hugely influential thinker, yet his writing can be dense and inaccessible. This critical introduction offers undergraduates a clear way into Habermas's concept of the 'public sphere' and its relevance to contemporary society. It is of interest to students and scholars in the disciplines of social sciences and humanities.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-162) and index.

Introduction -- Excavations: the history of a concept -- The bourgeois public sphere -- The fall of the bourgeois public sphere -- Critical publicity and late capitalism -- Discursive testing: the public sphere and its critics -- Lessons from history -- Equality and emancipation -- Rationality and embodiment -- Reconfigurations: the public sphere since Structural Transformation -- Scientism and politics -- System, lifeworld and communicative action -- The politics of the other -- Mediations: from the coffee house to the Internet café -- The fall of the agora -- A public sphere in bits? -- Unfinished projects: reflexive democracy -- Reflexive agency -- Risk and reflexivity -- Revisiting the public sphere.

Habermas is a hugely influential thinker, yet his writing can be dense and inaccessible. This critical introduction offers undergraduates a clear way into Habermas's concept of the 'public sphere' and its relevance to contemporary society. It is of interest to students and scholars in the disciplines of social sciences and humanities.

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