JOHN MICHAEL ROBERTS is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. He is co-editor of Critical Realism and Marxism (2001), Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction (2003) and After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (forthcoming, 2004).

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Digging and Levelling the Capitalist Public Sphere Abstracting Dialogue Consummating Aesthetics John Stuart Mill and the Search for a State of Cultivation Jürgen Habermas and the Search for a State of Competency The Capitalist Form of the Public Sphere The Intuitive Form of Free Speech in the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Spheres The State of Free Speech Notes References Index

JOHN MICHAEL ROBERTS is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. He is co-editor of Critical Realism and Marxism (2001), Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction (2003) and After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (forthcoming, 2004).

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Digging and Levelling the Capitalist Public Sphere Abstracting Dialogue Consummating Aesthetics John Stuart Mill and the Search for a State of Cultivation Jürgen Habermas and the Search for a State of Competency The Capitalist Form of the Public Sphere The Intuitive Form of Free Speech in the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Spheres The State of Free Speech Notes References Index

JOHN MICHAEL ROBERTS is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. He is co-editor of Critical Realism and Marxism (2001), Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction (2003) and After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (forthcoming, 2004).

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Digging and Levelling the Capitalist Public Sphere Abstracting Dialogue Consummating Aesthetics John Stuart Mill and the Search for a State of Cultivation Jürgen Habermas and the Search for a State of Competency The Capitalist Form of the Public Sphere The Intuitive Form of Free Speech in the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Spheres The State of Free Speech Notes References Index