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Informationen zum Autor Christian J. Emden is Professor of German Intellectual History and Political Thought at Rice University. He is the author of Nietzsche on Language, Consciousness, and the Body (University of Illinois Press, 2005) and Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of History (Cambridge University Press, 2008). David Midgley is Professor in German Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge, England, and a Fellow of St. John’s College. His publications include WritingWeimar: Critical Realismin German Literature, 1918–1933 (Oxford University Press, 2000). Klappentext A collection of essays on Habermas by a team of highly accomplished scholars Offers a detailed study of Habermas' early work The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Explores the tension between politcal life and the emerging institutions of the Bourgeoisie of the 18th century, and its impact on the 'public sphere' Includes a detailed bibliography, collection of notes on the contributors and a comprehensive index Zusammenfassung During the 1960s the German philosopher Jurgen 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... Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Beyond Habermas? From the Bourgeois Public Sphere to Global Publics Christian J. Emden and David Midgley Part I: Public Opinion in the Democratic Polity Chapter 1. Public Sphere and Political Experience Lord (Richard) Wilson Chapter 2. Public Opinion and Public Sphere Gordon Graham Chapter 3. The Tyranny of Majority Opinion in the Public Sphere Gary Wihl Part II: Knowledge and the Public Sphere Chapter 4. Epistemic Publics: On the Trading Zones of Knowledge Christian J. Emden Chapter 5. The Public in Public Health Anne Hardy Chapter 6. Geeks and Recursive Publics: How the Internet and Free Software Make Things Public Christopher Kelty Part III: Democracy, Philosophy, and Global Publics Chapter 7. Mediating the Public Sphere: Digitization, Pluralism, and Communicative Democracy Georgina Born Chapter 8. Critique of Public Reason: Normativity, Legitimation, and Meaning in the Public Sphere Steven G. Crowell Chapter 9. On the Global Multiplicity of Public Spheres: The Democratic Transformation of the Public Sphere? James Tully Contributors Bibliography Index ...
