Jürgen Habermas : democracy and the public sphere / Luke Goode.

Author/creator Goode, Luke, 1971-
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2005.
Descriptionvi, 165 pages ; 23 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Habermas, Jürgen Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit.
Sociology--Methodology.
Democracy.
Mass media--Political aspects.
Political participation.
Political sociology.
Internet--Political aspects.

SeriesModern European thinkers
Modern European thinkers. ^A396246
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 142-162) and index.
LCCN 2005014366
ISBN0745320899 (hb)
ISBN0745320880 (pb)