| Description |
xix, 301 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Studies in contemporary German social thought |
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Studies in contemporary German social thought.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Preliminary demarcation of a type of bourgeois public sphere -- The initial question -- Remarks on the type of representative publicness -- On the genesis of the bourgeois public sphere -- 2. Social structures of the public sphere -- The basic blueprint -- Institutions of the public sphere -- The bourgeois family and the institutionalization of a privateness oriented to an audience -- The public sphere in the world of letters in relation to the public sphere in the political realm -- 3. The political functions of the public sphere -- The model case of the British development -- The continental variants -- Civil society as the sphere of private autonomy: private law and a liberalized market -- The contradictory institutionalization of the public sphere in the bourgeois constitutional state -- 4. The bourgeois public opinion: idea and ideology -- Public opinion, Opinion publique, Offentliche meinung: on the prehistory of the phrase -- Publicity as the bridging principle between politics and morality (Kant) -- On the dialectic of the public sphere (Hegel and Marx) -- The ambivalent view of the public sphere in the theory of liberalism (John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville) -- 5. The social-structural transformation of the public sphere -- The tendency toward a mutual infiltration of public and private spheres -- The polarization of the social sphere and the intimate sphere -- From a cultural-debating (kulturrasonierend) public to a culture-consuming public -- The blurred blueprint: developmental pathways in the disintegration of the bourgeois public sphere -- 6. The transformation of the public sphere's political function -- From the journalism of private men of letters to the public consumer services of the mass media: the public sphere as a platform for advertising -- The transmuted function of the principle of publicity -- Manufactured publicity and nonpublic opinion: the voting behavior of the population -- The political public sphere and the transformation of the liberal constitutional state into a social-welfare state -- 7. On the concept of public opinion -- Public opinion as a fiction of constitutional law, and the social-psychological liquidation of the concept -- A sociological attempt at clarification |
| Notes |
Translation of: Strukturwandel der Offentlichkeit |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [251]-298 |
| Subject |
Communication -- Social aspects.
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Middle class.
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Political sociology.
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Public interest.
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Public opinion.
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Social history.
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Social structure.
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Sociology -- Methodology.
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| Author |
Bürger, Thomas.
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| LC no. |
88013456 |
| ISBN |
0262081806 |
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0262581086 |
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