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| Other authors / contributors: | Emden, Christian, editor.
Midgley, David R., 1948- editor.
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| ISBN: | 9780857457226
0857457225
9781283866552
1283866552
9780857457219
0857457217
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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, litera.
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| Other form: | Print version: Beyond Habermas. New York : Berghahn Books, 2012 9780857457219
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