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

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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Emden, Christian (Editor ), Midgley, David R., 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 226 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.
ISBN:9780857457226
0857457225