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Habermas argues that the public sphere requires "specific means for transmitting information and influencing those who receive it". [16] Habermas' argument shows that the media are of particular importance for constituting and maintaining a public sphere. Discussions about the media have therefore been of particular importance in public sphere ...
According to Habermas, the notion of the "public sphere" began evolving during the Renaissance in Western Europe.Brought on partially by merchants' need for accurate information about distant markets as well as by the growth of democracy and individual liberty and popular sovereignty, the public sphere was a place between private individuals and government authorities in which people could ...
Finally, the article ends with a section on "The Public Sphere in the Social Welfare State Mass Democracy", as Habermas believes that the existence of "The Liberal Model of the Public Sphere" has diminished in today's society with the use of propaganda, and modern journalism. Habermas argues that the public and private spheres have intertwined ...
Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Democracy: A Critical Intervention by Douglas Kellner; Jurgen Habermas, On Society and Politics; Juergen Habermas gives Memorial Lecture in honor of American Philosopher, Richard Rorty on 2 November 2007 5pm Cubberley Auditorium, at Stanford University.
The theory of communicative rationality has been criticized for being utopian and idealistic, [5] for being blind to issues of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality, [6] and for ignoring the role of conflict, contest, and exclusion in the historical constitution of the public sphere. [7]
Habermas' earlier work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, anticipates his concern for argumentation and can be read retrospectively as a historical case study of Western European societies institutionalizing aspects of communicative action in the political and social spheres. Habermas notes the rise of institutions of public ...
The Theory of Communicative Action was the subject of a collection of critical essays published in 1986. [34] The philosopher Tom Rockmore, writing in 1989, commented that it was unclear whether The Theory of Communicative Action or Habermas's earlier work Knowledge and Human Interests (1968), was the most important of Habermas's works. [35]
Between Facts and Norms (German: Faktizität und Geltung) is a 1992 book on deliberative politics by the German political philosopher Jürgen Habermas.The culmination of the project that Habermas began with The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in 1962, it represents a lifetime of political thought on the nature of democracy and law.