Beyond Habermas : : Democracy, Knowledge, and 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: Born, Georgina,; Crowell, Steven G.,; Emden, Christian J.,; Graham, Gordon,; Hardy, Anne,; Kelty, Christopher,; Midgley, David,; Tully, James,; Wihl, Gary,; Wilson, Richard,
• 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 (232 p.)

During the 1960s the German philosopher Jürgen 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 concepts at the very heart of modernity. For Habermas, the tension between the administrative power of the state, with its understanding of sovereignty, and the emerging institutions of the bourgeoisie—coffee houses, periodicals, encyclopedias, literary culture, etc.—was seen as being mediated by the public sphere, making it a symbolic site of public reasoning. This volume examines whether the “public sphere” remains a central explanatory model in the social sciences, political theory, and the humanities.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Beyond Habermas? -- PART I—PUBLIC OPINION IN THE DEMOCRATIC POLITY -- Chapter 1. Public Sphere and Political Experience -- Chapter 2. Public Opinion and the Public Sphere -- Chapter 3. The Tyranny of Majority Opinion in the Public Sphere -- PART II—KNOWLEDGE AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- Chapter 4. Epistemic Publics -- Chapter 5. The Public in Public Health -- Chapter 6. Geeks and Recursive Publics -- PART III—DEMOCRACY, PHILOSOPHY, AND GLOBAL PUBLICS -- Chapter 7. Mediating the Public Sphere -- Chapter 8. Critique of Public Reason -- Chapter 9. On the Global Multiplicity of Public Spheres -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index