The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society
Language: English
Published by Polity, 1992
Series: Book 25 of 69 - Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
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Jürgen Habermas. *The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere*. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021 [corrected edition]. Landmark 1962 study tracing the bourgeois public sphere's emergence in 18th-century coffeehouses, salons and periodical press – analyzing its rational-critical debate as foundation for democracy, then charting its "refeudalization" through mass media, consumer culture and welfare state intervention. Trade paperback, ~300pp, with Habermas's systematic historical-sociological framework influencing media studies, democratic theory and Frankfurt School scholarship. Essential primary text for political philosophy, communication studies and modernity critiques. **Condition:** Very Good: light shelfwear to glossy wrappers, spine uncreased, pages clean and unmarked with no highlighting. Superior reading copy. Habermas's most influential work defining the public sphere concept – perennially cited across political science, sociology and cultural studies; 2021 edition includes updated introduction and notes.…
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- Title
- The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society
- Author
- Habermas, Jürgen
- Publisher
- Polity
- Publication year
- 1992
- Condition
- As new
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0745610773
- ISBN 13
- 9780745610771
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 476 grams
- Dimensions
- 1.74 centimeters width by 15.46 centimeters height by 22.82 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 25 of 69: Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought
Habermas focuses on the liberal notion of the bourgeois public sphere as it emerged in Europe in the early modern period. He examines both the writings of political theorists, including Marx, Mill and de Tocqueville, and the specific institutions and social forms in which the public sphere was realized.
This brilliant and influential work has been widely recognized for many years as a classic of contemporary social and political thought, of interest to students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.
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