Author: Habermas, Jürgen
Title: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
Description: Cambridge [MA], MIT Press, (1994). 6th printing. orig.wrappers. 24x15cm, xix,301 pp. PAPERBACK. Series: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Translated by Thomas Burger, with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence. Contents: Introduction: preliminary demarcation of a type pf 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 -- 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 spere: 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 political public sphere and the transformation of the liberal constitutional state into a social-welfare state ...

Keywords: Political Sociology, Social Structure, Critical Theory, Methodology, Middle Class, Public Interest, , ,