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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Jürgen Habermas

Politics & SocietyPhilosophyHistory
Publish date
1965
Publisher
The MIT Press
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Jürgen Habermas's The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere traces the historical rise and subsequent decline of the bourgeois public sphere in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book argues that early modern spaces like coffeehouses and salons initially enabled private individuals to engage in rational-critical political debate, but modern mass media, commercialization, and state intervention eventually transformed this sphere into one of passive consumption. This theoretical work is intended primarily for academic researchers, students, and scholars in sociology, political science, philosophy, and media studies.
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