The structural transformation of the public sphere : An inquiry into a category of bourgeois society /
Jürgen Habermas ; translated by Thomas Burger with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1989.
- xix, 301 p. ; 24 cm.
- Studies in contemporary German social thought .
Translation of: Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [251]-298.
Table of contents
Introduction by Thomas McCarthy. Part I. Preliminary Demarcation of a Type of Bourgeois Public Sphere. Part II. Social Structures of the Public Sphere. Part III. Political Functions of the Public Sphere. Part IV. The Bourgeois Public Sphere: Idea and Ideology. Part V. The Social--Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Part VI. The Transformation of the Public Spherea s Political Function. Notes. Index.
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Sociology--Methodology. Social structure. Public interest. Middle class. Political sociology.