Jurgen Habermas_ Democracy and the Public Sphere

(Modern European Thinkers)

Luke Goode

Jurgen Habermas_ Democracy and the Public Sphere (Modern European Thinkers)

Pluto Press (2005)

Format PDF 592 KB

Pages 175

Acknowledgements vi

Introduction 1

1 Excavations: The History of a Concept 3

The bourgeois public sphere 4

The fall of the bourgeois public sphere 14

Critical publicity and late capitalism 25

2 Discursive Testing: The Public Sphere and its Critics 29

Lessons from history 29

Equality and emancipation 34

Rationality and embodiment 48

3 Reconfi gurations: The Public Sphere since Structural

Transformation 56

Scientism and politics 56

System, lifeworld and communicative action 62

The politics of the Other 71

4 Mediations: From the Coffee House to the Internet Café 89

The fall of the agora 90

A public sphere in bits? 106

5 Unfi nished Projects: Refl exive Democracy 120

Refl exive agency 122

Risk and refl exivity 128

Revisiting the public sphere 133

Notes 142

Bibliography 157

Index 163