Habermas, the public sphere and beyond

Bibliographic Data

ID7093595
AuthorsPieter Duvenage (0000-0003-1307-4255, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume31
Issue1
Pages1-12
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunicatio (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0250-0167 • E-ISSN: 1753-5379
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02500160508538008
OpenAlexW1986714627
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited20

Habermas's major early work, The structural transformation of the public sphere, is the focus of this contribution. A brief intellectual sketch of Habermas is provided and against this background his work is discussed. Habermas's relatively optimistic picture of the historical development of the bourgeois public sphere is reconstructed. Here a normative ideal of the public sphere is connected with a claim to public reason. In The structural transformation of the public sphere Habermas provides a view of the decline of the public sphere in a post-liberal era of market manipulation – a view that was strongly influenced by Adomo and Horkheimer. Some of the critical perspectives on Habermas's concept of the public sphere are discussed with the view to providing a framework in which his work can be critically revisited in the current mediatised and technocultural age

Bourgeoisie · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Private sphere · Public sphere · Sketch · Sociology · Work (physics · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory

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