Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere - An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgois Society

by Habermas, Jurgen; Burger, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780262581080
• ISBN10: 0262581086
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-08-28
• Publisher: The MIT Press

Summary

This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolution of public opinion in democratic societies.

Author Biography

Jürgen Habermas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He was recently awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy by the Inamori Foundation. The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Author's Preface	p. xvii
Introduction: Preliminary Demarcation of a Type of Bourgeois Public Sphere
The Initial Questions	p. 1
Remarks on the Type of Representative Publicness	p. 5
On the Genesis of the Bourgeois Public Sphere	p. 14
Social Structures of the Public Sphere
The Basic Blueprint	p. 27
Institutions of the Public Sphere	p. 31
The Bourgeois Family and the Institutionalization of a Privateness Oriented to an Audience	p. 43
The Public Sphere in the World of Letters in Relation to the Public Sphere in the Political Realm	p. 51
Political Functions of the Public Sphere
The Model Case of British Development	p. 57
The Continental Variants	p. 67
Civil Society as the Sphere of Private Autonomy: Private Law and a Liberalized Market	p. 73
The Contradictory Institutionalization of the Public Sphere in the Bourgeois Constitutional State	p. 79
The Bourgeois Public Sphere: Idea and Ideology
Public Opinion--Opinion Publique--Offentliche Meinung: On the Prehistory of the Phrase	p. 89
Publicity as the Bridging Principle between Politics and Morality (Kant)	p. 102
On the Dialectic of the Public Sphere (Hegel and Marx)	p. 117
The Ambivalent View of the Public Sphere in the Theory of Liberalism (John Stuart Mill and tIle Theory of Liberalism	p. 129
The Social-Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Tendency toward a Mutual Infiltration of Public and Private Spheres	p. 141
The Polarization of the Social Sphere and the Intimate Sphere	p. 151
From a Culture-Debating (kulturrasonierend) Public to a Culture-Consuming Public	p. 159
The Blurred Blueprint: Developmental Pathways in the Disintegration of the Bourgeois Public Sphere	p. 175
The Transformation of the Public Sphere's Political Function
From the Journalism of Private Men of Letters to the Public Consumer Services of the Mass Media: The Public Sphere as a Platform for Advertising	p. 181
The Transmuted Function of the Principle of Publicity	p. 196
Manufactured Publicity and Nonpublic Opinion: The Voting Behavior of the Population	p. 211
The Political Public Sphere and the Transformation of the Liberal Constitutional State into a Social-Welfare State	p. 222
On the Concept of Public Opinion
Public Opinion as a Fiction of Constitutional Law--and the Social-Psychological Liquidation of the Concept	p. 236
A Sociological Attempt at Clarification	p. 244
Notes	p. 251
Index	p. 299
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