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Beyond Habermas : democracy, knowledge, and the public sphere
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Beyond Habermas : democracy, knowledge, and the public sphere

Author: Christian Emden; David R Midgley
Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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During the 1960s the German philosopher Jurgen Habermas introduced the notion of a bourgeois public sphere in order to describe the symbolic arena of political life and conversation that originated  Read more...

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Named Person: Jürgen Habermas
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Christian Emden; David R Midgley
ISBN: 9780857457219 0857457217 9780857457226 0857457225
OCLC Number: 776031967
Description: vi, 226 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Beyond Habermas? From the Bourgeois Public Sphere to Global Publics Christian J. Emden and David Midgley Part I: Public Opinion in the Democratic Polity Chapter 1. Public Sphere and Political Experience Lord (Richard) Wilson Chapter 2. Public Opinion and Public Sphere Gordon Graham Chapter 3. The Tyranny of Majority Opinion in the Public Sphere Gary Wihl Part II: Knowledge and the Public Sphere Chapter 4. Epistemic Publics: On the Trading Zones of Knowledge Christian J. Emden Chapter 5. The Public in Public Health Anne Hardy Chapter 6. Geeks and Recursive Publics: How the Internet and Free Software Make Things Public Christopher Kelty Part III: Democracy, Philosophy, and Global Publics Chapter 7. Mediating the Public Sphere: Digitization, Pluralism, and Communicative Democracy Georgina Born Chapter 8. Critique of Public Reason: Normativity, Legitimation, and Meaning in the Public Sphere Steven G. Crowell Chapter 9. On the Global Multiplicity of Public Spheres: The Democratic Transformation of the Public Sphere? James Tully Contributors Bibliography Index
Responsibility: edited by Christian J. Emden and David Midgley.
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"This is an interesting collection of essays by a set of prominent and important scholars. Most of the essays respond to Habermas' early book, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. They Read more...

 
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