‘Habermas and the Public Sphere
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Contents
Preface
| Introduction: Habermas and the Public Sphere
Craig Calhoun
I Philosophical Models
2 Practical Discourse: On the Relation of Morality
to Politics
Thomas McCarthy
3. Models of Public Space: Hannah Arendt, the
Liberal Tradition, and Jurgen Habermas
Seyla Benhabib
4 The Public Sphere: Models and Boundaries
Peer Uwe Hohendaht
5 Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to
the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy
Nancy Fraser
6 Was There Ever a Public Sphere? IfSo, When?
Reflections on the American
Michael Schudson
1 Political Theory and Historical Analysis
-Moishe Patone
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I Historical Publics
'8 Defining the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-
Century France: Variations on a Theme by
Habermas
Keith Michael Baker
9 Religion, Science, and Printing in the Public
Spheres in Seventeenth-Century England
David Zare
10 Habermas, History, and Critical Theory
Llayd Kramer
11 Gender and Public Access: Women’s Politics in
Nineteenth-Century America
Mary P. Ryan
12 Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing
Habermas in the Nineteenth Cencury
Geoff Eley
13 The Pragmatic Ends of Popular Politics
Harry C. Boste
II Public Communication
14 The Media and the Puble Sphere
Nicholas Garnham
15 The Mass Public and the Mass Subject
Michael Warmer
16 ‘Textualty, Mediation, and Public Discourse
Benjamin Lee
IV Conclusion and Response
17 Further Reflections on the Publie Sphere
Jargen Habermas
18 Concluding Remarks
Contributors
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Preface
Efforts to understand the history, foundations, and internal
processes of public discourse ate gaining importance in several
disciplines. They inform democratic theory in political science,
the self-reflection of literary and other cultural critics, the mod
‘ernism/pastmodernism debate in philosophy and cultural stud
ies, new approaches in ethics and jurisprudence, and empirical
studies in sociology, history, and communications. The debate
has been influenced deeply by a variety of Jigen Habermas's
works. Surprisingly absent from the discussion, atleast in En-
glish, has been ome of Habermas's most important and directly
Felevant early works, The Structural Transformation ofthe Public
Sphere Though this work has been among Habermas's most
influential in German, and though it has been translated into
several languages, it has only recently appeared in English, 27
years after publication of the German original.
“The translation is propitiously timed. The book is certain to
inform scholarship on problems of the relationship of state
and civil society, the origins of and prospects for democracy,
and the impact of the media, Perhaps even mote important,
the book's integrated treatment of these and other issues
promises to enrich current work by drawing researchers from
{ifferent disciplines into a common discourse. Structural Trans-
{formation vill alo. surprise readers of Habermas’ later work
{including not only his fans but some who deride him as the
new Parsons), This is by far the most historically concrete of
Habermas's major works, building its theoretical argument