The Public Sphere

Anders Molander is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Professions, Oslo Metropolitan University.

• VOLUME 1: DISCOVERING THE PUBLIC SPHEREPart 1: Inventing the Public SphereSpeech to the Electors of Bristol - Edmund BurkeAn Answer to the Question: ′What Is Enlightenment?′ - Immanuel KantOn Public Opinion - Alexander HamiltonOn Public Opinion - Jacques PeuchetExcerpt from Critique of the Power of Judgment - Immanuel KantPublic Opinion - James MadisonExcerpt from Toward Perpetual Peace - Immanuel KantExcerpt from The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns - Benjamin ConstantExcerpt from Elements of the Philosophy of Right - W.F. HegelExcerpt from On Liberty - John Stuart MillPart 2: ′Mass Society′, Democracy and Public OpinionExcerpt from Critique of Public Opinion - Ferdinand TönniesThe Principles of Parliamentarism - Carl SchmittExcerpts from The Phantom Public - Walter LippmannExcerpt from The Public and Its Problems - John DeweyExcerpt from Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy - Joseph A. SchumpeterPart 3: The Rediscovery of the Public SphereThe Public and the Private Realm - Hannah ArendtOn Judgment and Politics - Hannah ArendtThe Publice Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article - J rgen HabermasThe Scientization of Politics and Public Opinion - J rgen HabermasIntroduction to Public Sphere and Experience - Oskar Negt and Alexander KlugeThe End of Public Culture - Richard SennettPart 4: Debating the Public SphereThe Blurring of Public and Private Behaviours - Joshua MeyrowitzSocietal Complexity and Public Opinion - Niklas Luhmann Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy - Nancy FraserFurther Reflections on the Public Sphere - J rgen HabermasThe Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration - Joan B. LandesPublic Intimacies, Private Citizens: Inequalities and the Pluralization of Public Spheres - Ken PlummerVOLUME 2: THE POLITICAL PUBLIC SPHEREPart 1: The Public Sphere and Deliberative DemocracyOn Legitimacy and Political Deliberation - Bernard ManinDeliberation and Democratic Legitimacy - Joshua CohenCivil Society, Public Opinion, and Communicative Power - J rgen HabermasThree Normative Models of Democracy - J rgen HabermasThe Sense of Reciprocity - Amy Gutmann and Dennis ThompsonThe Idea of Public Reason Revisited - John RawlsDeliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism? - Chantal MouffeIs the Ideal of a Deliberative Democracy Coherent? - Cristina LafontPart 2: The Political Public Sphere at Work: Public OpinionThe Nature of Personal Influence - Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson and Hazel GaudetDemocratic Theory and Public Opinion - Bernard BerelsonOpinion Research and Publicness - Theodor W. AdornoThe Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media - Maxwell E. McCombs and Donald L. ShawThe Spiral of Silence: A Theory of Public Opinion - Elisabeth Noelle-NeumannPublic Opinion Does Not Exist - Pierre BourdieuPart 3: The Political Public Sphere at Work: DeliberationAgainst Deliberation - Lynn M. SandersDeliberation as Discussion - James D. FearonGood Citizens and Bad History: Today′s Political Ideals in Historical Perspective - Michael SchudsonMeasuring Publicity′s Effect: Reconciling Empirical Research and Normative Theory - Simone ChambersPolitical Communication in Media Society: Does Democracy Still Enjoy an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research - J rgen HabermasThe Surprising Failures of Deliberating Groups - Cass R. SunsteinDisaggregating Deliberation′s Effects: An Experiment within a Deliberative Poll - Cynthia Farrar et alVOLUME 3: THE CULTURAL PUBLIC SPHEREPart 1: Aesthetics, Ethics, PoliticsDiscourses and InstitutionsThe Dialectic of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment - Immanuel KantLetter to M. d′Alembert on the Theatre - Jean-Jacques RousseauTheater Considered as a Moral Institution - Friedrich SchillerInstitutions of the Public Sphere - J rgen HabermasSociety - Theodor W. AdornoAesthetic Experience and Political ImpactOn the Social Function of Literature - Hans Robert JaussTales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama - Thomas ElsaesserHistory as Entertainment and Provocation: The TV Series ′Holocaust′ in West Germany - Siegfried ZielinskiOn Theatre - Bertolt BrechtOn Uncle Tom′s Cabin - Henry Louis Gates Jr and Hollis RobbinsPart 2: Publics and MarketsPublics and ReadersThe Bourgeois Family and the Institutionalization of a Privateness Oriented to an Audience - J rgen HabermasThe Reading Public and the Rise of the Novel - Ian WattEarly Cinema: Whose Public Sphere? - Miriam HansenPerspectives on Media and the Modern PublicCulture Industry Reconsidered - Theodor W. AdornoFree Time - Theodor W. AdornoHuman Interest Stories and Democracy - Helen MacGill HughesCelebrity Culture and Public Connection: Bridge or Chasm? - Nick Couldry and Tim MarkhamPublic Service Broadcasting and Modern Public Life - Paddy ScannellThe Cultural Public Sphere - Jim McGuiganBeyond the Semantic ′Big Bang′: Cultural Sociology and an Aesthetic Public Sphere - Paul JonesSection 3: Identity, Identification and ImaginationThe Origins of National Consciousness - Benedict AndersonSuppose James Brown Read Fanon: The Black Arts Movement, Cultural Nationalism and the Failure of Popular Musical Praxis - Michael HansonThis Book Changes Lives: The ′Consciousness-Raising Novel′ and Its Legacy - Imelda Whelehan and Maroula JoannouTaking Sides - Luc BoltanskiThe Discourse of Global Compassion: The Audience and Media Reporting of Human Suffering - Birgitta HöijerPart 4: Cultural Policy and the Public SphereCan a Liberal State Support Art? - Ronald DworkinThe Media and the Public Sphere - Nicholas GarnhamLearning from Experience: Cultural Policies and Cultural Democracy in the 20th Century - Jostein GripsrudBuilding the Digital Commons: Public Broadcasting in the Age of the Internet - Graham MurdockVOLUME 4: THE FUTURE OF THE PUBLIC SPHEREPart 1: The Internet as a Public SphereCyberdemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere - Mark PosterDemocracy Online: Civility, Politeness, and the Democratic Potential of Online Political Discussion Groups - Zizi PapacharissiDismantling the Digital Divide: Rethinking the Dynamics of Participation and Exclusion - Graham Murdock and Peter GoldingThe Internet, Public Spheres, and Political Communication: Dispersion and Deliberation - Peter DahlgrenWhose Voice Is Heard in Online Deliberation? A Study of Participation and Representation in Political Debates on the Internet - Steffen AlbrechtPart 2: Fragmentation and Segmentation - Todd GitlinPublic Sphere or Public Sphericules?Publicity - John KeaneAgainst the Tide? Small Groups, Social Movements, and the Net - Robert D. PutnamOn Power Law Distributions, Network Topology, and Being Heard - Yochai BenklerNeither Hayek nor Habermas - Cass R. SunsteinPart 3: Difference and DeliberationDifference as a Resource for Democratic Communication - Iris Marion YoungDeliberative Democracy, Self-determination, and Multiculturalism - Seyla BenhabibReligion in the Public Sphere - J rgen HabermasPart 4: Transnational Public SpheresNational and Transnational Public Spheres - Bernhard PetersExpanding Dialogue: The Internet, the Public Sphere and Prospects for Transnational Democracy - James BohmanBeyond Migration: Islam as a Transnational Public Space - John R. BowenTelevision and the European Public Sphere - Jostein GripsrudTransnationalizing the Public Sphere: On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World - Nancy FraserGlobal 24/7 News Providers: Emissaries of Global Dominance or Global Public Sphere? - Simon Cottle and Mugdha RaiThe New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance - Manuel CastellsUniting and Dividing: The European Public Sphere as an Unfinished Project - Hans-Jörg TrenzPressure on Press Freedom: The Current Religious War on Freedom of Expression - Frederik Stjernfelt