Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Excavations: the history of a concept
  • The bourgeois public sphere
  • The fall of the bourgeois public sphere
  • Critical publicity and late capitalism
  • Discursive testing: the public sphere and its critics
  • Lessons from history
  • Equality and emancipation
  • Rationality and embodiment
  • Reconfigurations: the public sphere since Structural Transformation
  • Scientism and politics
  • System, lifeworld and communicative action
  • The politics of the other
  • Mediations: from the coffee house to the Internet café
  • The fall of the agora
  • A public sphere in bits?
  • Unfinished projects: reflexive democracy
  • Reflexive agency
  • Risk and reflexivity
  • Revisiting the public sphere.