Michael Hofmann

Reading Habermas

Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

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Produktbeschreibung

Reading Habermas: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere provides comprehensive guidance to understanding the complex methodologies of Habermas's global academic best seller. This timely guide parallels Habermas's publications from 2021 and 2022 about a new structural transformation of political will-formation caused primarily by the digital dominance of social media platforms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498590181
• ISBN-10: 1498590187
• Artikelnr.: 71811037

Autorenporträt

Michael Hofmann is professor of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Social Media Transformation of the Public Sphere and the
Crisis of Neoliberal Democracy
Introduction: The Unique Significance of Structural Transformation of the
Public Sphere for the Theory and Practice of Democratic Deliberation
Chapter 1: Structural Transformation's Normative Theses about a Dissolution
of Domination in the Bourgeois Public Sphere
Chapter 2: Habermas's Dialectical Use of Ideology Critique to
Counterfactually Assert a Moment of Historical Credibility for the
Bourgeois Ideal of the Public Sphere
Chapter 3: Structural Transformation's Cold War Origins: Habermas's Defense
of Kantian Rationality, Human Rights, and the Enlightenment
Chapter 4: Participatory Democracy versus Political Manipulation: The Role
of Habermas's "Celebrated Coffee Houses" (Todd Gitlin) in the Modern Public
Sphere
Chapter 5: Understanding Habermas's Public Sphere Concept by Dissolving its
Monolithic Stylization: Structural Transformation's Interpretation of a
Sociological and Political Category with the Norms of Constitutional Theory
and Intellectual History
Chapter 6: Structural Transformation's Tacit Model Case of the Bourgeois
Public Sphere: The French Revolution, Kant's "Unofficial" Philosophy of
History, Condorcet Absolute Rationalism, and Schiller's Expressive
Subjectivism
Chapter 7: The Achilles' Heel of Schiller's Moral Stage and Structural
Transformation's Moral Politics: A Dependency of Smith's Political Economy
and Kant's Constitutional Law on Mandeville's Moral Paradox of Bourgeois
Society
Chapter 8: Habermas's Unexplained Methodology: A Complex "Ideology-Critical
Procedure"
Chapter 9: The Result of Structural Transformation's Dialectical Use of
Schmitt's "Civil War Topos" and Koselleck's "Process of Criticism:" A
Tension between Developmental History and Ideology-Critical Procedure
Conclusion: Renewing the Human Rights Perspective in the Political Public
Sphere