Public Sphere and Experience: Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere

by Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge

Book Overview

The "public sphere" is a key concept in political discourse, designating a space for political action. But is this a single authoritative and universal space in which various positions compete for recognition, or does it consist of multiple local spaces spread over diverse collectivities? In Kluge and Negt's groundbreaking book they examine the material conditions of experience in an arena that had previously figured only as an abstract term: the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784782416
• ISBN13: 9781784782412
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.2" x 7.7"