TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goode,Luke
TI  - Jürgen Habermas: democracy and the public sphere 
T2  - Modern European thinkers
SN  - 0745320880
AV  - HM585 .G66 2005
U1  - 302.23 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, Ann Arbor, MI
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Habermas, Jürgen.
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Internet
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Political sociology
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Methodology
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -