Beyond Habermas

Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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During the 1960s the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas introduced the notion of a “bourgeois public sphere” in order to describe the symbolic arena of political life and conversation that originated with the cultural institutions of the early eighteenth-century; since then the “public sphere” itself has become perhaps one of the most debated concepts at the very heart of modernity. For Habermas, the tension between the administrative power of the state, with its understanding of sovereignty, and the emerging institutions of the bourgeoisie—coffee houses, periodicals, encyclopedias, literary culture, etc.—was seen as being mediated by the public sphere, making it a symbolic site of public reasoning. This volume examines whether the “public sphere” remains a central explanatory model in the social sciences, political theory, and the humanities.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-11-01
Mått152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt485 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor232
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9780857457219

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Introduction: Beyond Habermas? From the Bourgeois Public Sphere to Global PublicsChristian J. Emden and David Midgley Part I: Public Opinion in the Democratic PolityChapter 1. Public Sphere and Political ExperienceLord (Richard) Wilson Chapter 2. Public Opinion and Public SphereGordon GrahamChapter 3. The Tyranny of Majority Opinion in the Public SphereGary WihlPart II: Knowledge and the Public SphereChapter 4. Epistemic Publics: On the Trading Zones of KnowledgeChristian J. EmdenChapter 5. The Public in Public HealthAnne HardyChapter 6. Geeks and Recursive Publics: How the Internet and Free Software Make Things PublicChristopher KeltyPart III: Democracy, Philosophy, and Global PublicsChapter 7. Mediating the Public Sphere: Digitization, Pluralism, and Communicative DemocracyGeorgina BornChapter 8. Critique of Public Reason: Normativity, Legitimation, and Meaning in the Public SphereSteven G. Crowell Chapter 9. On the Global Multiplicity of Public Spheres: The Democratic Transformation of the Public Sphere?James TullyContributorsBibliographyIndex

“Informed, informative, thoughtful, thought-provoking, and reflecting an expansion based or inspired in part upon the earlier work of Habermas, this superb anthology of impeccable scholarship is a seminal and highly recommended body of work. Enhanced with the inclusion of an extensive bibliography, notes on the contributors, and a comprehensive index, Beyond Habermasis an essential addition to academic library philosophy collections.” · The Midwest Book Review“This is an interesting collection of essays by a set of prominent and important scholars. Most of the essays respond to Habermas’ early book, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. They do so, however, in a wide variety of fields… It is a huge benefit, in that the reader is not fed a diet of restricted and distorting examples, as is so often the case when political theorists debate the notion of the public space or the public voice.” · Andrew Norris, University of California, Santa Barbara