Beyond Habermas : democracy, knowledge, and the public sphere /

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Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 226 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Habermas, Jürgen. Habermas, Jürgen. Political science -- Philosophy. Democracy -- Philosophy. Democracy -- Philosophy. Political science -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11954794

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

Table of Contents:

Beyond Habermas? From the Bourgeois Public Sphere to Global Publics; Part I
Public Opinion in the Democratic Polity; Chapter 1
Public Sphere and Political Experience; Chapter 2
Public Opinion and the Public Sphere; Chapter 3
The Tyranny of Majority Opinion in the Public Sphere; Part III
Knowledge and the Public Sphere; Chapter 4
Epistemic Publics: On the Trading Zones of Knowledge; Chapter 5
The Public in Public Health; Chapter 6
Geeks and Recursive Publics: How the Internet and Free Software Make Things Public; Part III
Democracy, Philosophy, and Global Publics. Chapter 7
Mediating the Public Sphere: Digitization, Pluralism, and Communicative DemocracyChapter 8
Critique of Public Reason: Normativity, Legitimation, and Meaning in the Public Sphere; Chapter 9
On the Global Multiplicity of Public Spheres: The Democratic Transformation of the Public Sphere?; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.

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