Beyond Habermas [[electronic resource] ] : democracy, knowledge, and the public sphere / / edited by Christian J. Emden and David Midgley

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Disciplina: 300.1; 320.01
• Soggetto topico: Political science - Philosophy; Democracy - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: EmdenChristian MidgleyDavid R. <1948->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Beyond Habermas? From the Bourgeois Public Sphere to Global Publics; 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 III - Knowledge and the Public Sphere; Chapter 4 - Epistemic Publics: On the Trading Zones of Knowledge; Chapter 5 - The Public in Public Health; Chapter 6 - Geeks and Recursive Publics: How the Internet and Free Software Make Things Public; Part III - Democracy, Philosophy, and Global Publics ; Chapter 7 - Mediating the Public Sphere: Digitization, Pluralism, and Communicative DemocracyChapter 8 - Critique of Public Reason: Normativity, Legitimation, and Meaning in the Public Sphere; Chapter 9 - On the Global Multiplicity of Public Spheres: The Democratic Transformation of the Public Sphere?; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, litera
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond Habermas
• ISBN: 1-283-86655-2; 0-85745-722-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452707103321
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