Public sphere
Related: public - mass society - people - Jürgen Habermas -
Definition
A concept in continental philosophy and critical theory, the public sphere contrasts with the private sphere, and is the part of life in which one is interacting with others and with society at large. Much of the thought about the public sphere relates to the concept of identity and identity politics. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public sphere [May 2006]The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (1962) - Jürgen Habermas
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, by Jürgen Habermas, was published in 1962.
It is an account of the development of a bourgeois public sphere in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and its subsequent decline. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structural_Transformation_of_the_Public_Sphere [May 2006]
See also: Jürgen Habermas - 1962 - opinion - mass media - bourgeois
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