Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere / / ed. by Christian J. Emden, David Midgley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Boyle, Nicholas,; Burke, Peter,; Emden, Christian J.,; Lauster, Martina,; Midgley, David,; Timms, Edward,; Westphal, Sarah,; Whaley, Joachim,; Zammito, John H.,
• HerausgeberIn: Emden, Christian J.,; Midgley, David,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 p.)

Initially propounded by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas in 1962 in order to describe the realm of social discourse between the state on one hand, and the private sphere of the market and the family on the other, the concept of a bourgeois public sphere quickly became a central point of reference in the humanities and social sciences. This volume reassesses the validity and reach of Habermas’s concept beyond political theory by exploring concrete literary and cultural manifestations in early modern and modern Europe. The contributors ask whether, and in what forms, a social formation that rightfully can be called the “public sphere” really existed at particular historical junctures, and consider the senses in which the “public sphere” should rather be replaced by a multitude of interacting cultural and social “publics.” This volume offers insights into the current status of the “public sphere” within the disciplinary formation of the humanities and social sciences at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere -- Part I. PUBLICS BEFORE THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- Chapter 1. A PUBLIC SPHERE BEFORE KANT? -- Chapter 2. KUNIGUNDE OF BAVARIA AND THE “CONQUEST OF REGENSBURG” -- Chapter 3. PUBLICIZING THE PRIVATE -- Part II. THINKING ABOUT ENLIGHTENMENT PUBLICS -- Chapter 4. PRIVATE, PUBLIC, AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE -- Chapter 5. THE SECOND LIFE OF THE “PUBLIC SPHERE” -- Part III. CULTURAL POLITICS AND LITERARY PUBLICS -- Chapter 6. PROBING THE LIMITS -- Chapter 7. HABERMAS ANTICIPATED -- Chapter 8. KARL KRAUS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY VIENNA -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX