Jurgen Habermas

INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 - EXCAVATIONS: THE HISTORY OF A CONCEPT i) Introduction ii) The bourgeois public sphere iii) The fall of the bourgeois public sphere iv) Critical publicity and late capitalism CHAPTER 2 - DISCURSIVE TESTING: THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND ITS CRITICS i) Introduction ii) Lessons from history iii) Equality and emancipation iv) Rationality and embodiment CHAPTER 3 - RECONFIGURATIONS: THE PUBLIC SPHERE SINCE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION i) Introduction ii) Scientism and politics iii) System, lifeworld and communicative action iv) The politics of the other CHAPTER 4 - MEDIATIONS: FROM THE COFFEE HOUSE TO THE INTERNET CAFE i) Introduction ii) The fall of the agora iii) A public sphere in bits? CHAPTER 5 - UNFINISHED PROJECTS: REFLEXIVE DEMOCRACY i) Introduction ii) Reflexive agency iii) Risk and reflexivity iv) Revisiting the public sphere BIBLIOGRAPHY

Agora · Bourgeoisie · Democracy · Emancipation · Political science · Politics · Private sphere · Public sphere · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Habermas, Jürgen · Internet · Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026) · Mass media · Methodology · Political aspects · Political aspects of Internet · Political aspects of Mass media · Political participation · Political sociology