After Habermas

Nick Crossley is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include Making Sense of Social Movements (2002) and The Social Body: Habit, Identity and Desire (2001). John Michael Roberts is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Leeds. He has written widely on subjects relating to critical realism, the public sphere and historical publics, including Speakers’ Corner in London.

• Introduction: John Michael Roberts and Nick Crossley. 1. Wild Publics and Grotesque Symposiums: Habermas and Bahktin on Dialogue, Everyday Life and the Public Sphere: Michael. E. Gardiner (Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, Canada).2. Justice and Drama: On Bakhtin as a Complement to Habermas: Ken Hirschkop (Department of English and American Studies, University of Manchester, UK).3. John Stuart Mill, Free Speech and the Public Sphere: A Bakhtinian Critique: John Michael Roberts (Department of Sociology, University of Leeds, UK).4. On Systematically Distorted Communication: Bourdieu and the Socio-Analysis of Publics: Nick Crossley (Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK).5. Habermas and Social Movements – What’s New?: Gemma Edwards (Department of Sociology, University of Manchester, UK).6. Expanding Dialogue: the Internet, the Public Sphere and Prospects for Transnational Democracy: James Bohman (Department of Philosophy, St Louis University, USA).7. Feminism and the Political Economy of Transnational Public Space: Lisa McLaughlin.Notes on contributors.Index.

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