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ISBN(s): 9780415367691, 0203020162
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Year: 2005
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0203020162 
ISBN 13: 9780415367691
Author: Pauline Johnson

If we are to believe what many sociologists are telling us, the public sphere is in a near terminal state. Our ability to build solidarities with strangers and to agree on the general significance of needs and problems seems to be collapsing. These cultural potentials appear endangered by a newly aggressive attempt to universalize and extend the norms of the market. For four decades Habermas has been trying to bring the claims of a modern public sphere before us. His vast oeuvre has investigated its historical, sociological and theoretical preconditions, has explored its relevance and meaning as well as diagnosing its on-going crises. In the contemporary climate, a systematic look at Habermas’ lifelong project of rescuing the modern public sphere seems an urgent task. This study reconstructs major developments in Habermas’ thinking about the public sphere, and is a contribution to the current vigorous debate over its plight. It marshals the significance of Habermas’ lifetime of work on this topic to illuminate what is at stake in a contemporary interest in rescuing an embattled modern public sphere. Habermas’ project of rescuing the neglected potentials of Enlightenment legacies has been deeply controversial. For many, it is too lacking in radical commitments to warrant its claim to a contemporary place within a critical theory tradition. Against this developing consensus, Pauline Johnson describes Habermas’ project as one that is still informed by utopian energies, even though his own construction of emancipatory hopes itself proves to be too narrow and one-sided.

Habermas Rescuing the public sphere 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
The plight of the public sphere
The market as the new imaginary
Rescuing the public sphere
A critical theory for our times?

2 The structural transformation of the public sphere
The rise of the bourgeois public sphere
The question of normativity
Structural transformation
A glimmer of hope
Insights of the feminist critics
Recharging the public sphere with contemporary relevance

3 The theory of communicative action
Redoing the normative foundations
Redoing the sociology
The theory of communicative action
Ambiguous modernization processes
Old problems of a new critical theory

4 Discourse ethics and the normative justification of tolerance
An ethics of and for modernity
Reworking the tolerance principle
Surviving the contextualist critique?
Reviewing the search for normative justification

5 A discourse theory of law and democracy
Responding to normative confusions
Immanently critical potentials of liberal democracies
Reconstructing the public sphere
Reconciliation with liberal democratic realities?
The hidden republican?

6 Globalizing the public sphere
Building a cosmopolitan democratic politics
Normative underpinnings of a global public
Terrorism and the limits of a global public

7 The utopian energies of a radical reformist
Utopianism and the ambivalent potentials of modernity
Choosing the future from the present
The creativity of radical reformism

8 Romantic and Enlightenment legacies
The postmodern critics
Romanticizing democracy: Carl Schmitt and beyond
Democracy as reasonable consensus
Negotiating tensions between Romanticism and Enlightenment

9 Distorted communications
Habermas and feminism
Feminist complaints/Habermasian responses
The ambiguities of feminism

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