Habermas, Jürgen.

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.

HM24 / .H2713 1989

301.01 HAB