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Jürgen Habermas
Democracy and the Public Sphere
Luke Goode
Pluto P Press
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Goode, Luke, 1971–
Jürgen Habermas : democracy and the public sphere / Luke Goode.
p. cm. ––(Modern European thinkers)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0–7453–2089–9 (hb) –– ISBN 0–7453–2088–0 (pb)
1. Habermas, Jürgen. Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. 2. Sociology––Methodology.
3. Democracy. 4. Mass media––Political aspects. 5. Political participation. 6. Political
sociology. 7. ––Political aspects. I. Title. II. Series.
2005
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Contents
Acknowledgements vi
Introduction 1
1 Excavations: The History of a Concept 3
The bourgeois public sphere 4
The fall of the bourgeois public sphere 14
Critical publicity and late capitalism 25
2 Discursive Testing: The Public Sphere and its Critics 29
Lessons from history 29
Equality and emancipation 34
Rationality and embodiment 48
3 Reconfi gurations: The Public Sphere since Structural
Transformation 56
Scientism and politics 56
System, lifeworld municative action 62
The politics of