Reading Habermas: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

by Michael Hofmann

Book Overview

Reading Habermas: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere dissolves Habermas's monolithic stylization to access his seminal distinction between the purely political polis of antiquity, and the modern public sphere. Deconstructing the mold of Structural Transformation's narrative about a rise and fall of the bourgeois public sphere in modernity allows us to understand the ideology-critical methodologies of Habermas's theory reconstruction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498590187
• ISBN13: 9781498590181
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 306 Pages