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Habermas's Public Sphere - A Critique (Paperback)
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Habermas's Public Sphere - A Critique (Paperback)
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Habermas's Public Sphere: A Critique analyzes the evolution of
Juergen Habermas's social and political theory from the 1950s to
the present by focusing on the explicit and on the tacit changes in
his thinking about The Structural Transformation of the Public
Sphere, his global academic bestseller, which has been translated
into 30 languages. Integrating "public sphere," "discourse," and
"reason," the three categories at the center of his lifelong work
as a scholar and as a public intellectual, Habermas's classic
public sphere concept has deeply influenced an unusually high
number of disciplines in the social sciences and in the humanities.
In the process, its complex methodology, whose sources are not
always identified, can be perplexing and therefore lead to
misunderstandings. While Habermas's "Further Reflections on the
Public Sphere" (1992) contain several far-reaching clarifications,
they still do not identify a number of the most important sources
for his methodology, above all Herbert Marcuse and Ernst Bloch.
Hence, a key purpose of this study is to thoroughly analyze the
Marxist critique of ideology that Habermas uses in dialectical
fashion for his theory reconstruction of Immanuel Kant's liberal
ideal of a rational-critical public as the organizational principle
of the constitutional state and as the method of Enlightenment.
Such dialectical thinking allows him to appropriate the structure
of Reinhart Koselleck's Critique and Crisis and of Carl Schmitt's
writings on the modern state while simultaneously upending their
conservative critique of Liberalism and of the Enlightenment.
However, this strategy restricts the application of his concept to
his stylizations of the French Revolution and of his British "model
case." This critique reinvigorates Habermas's seminal distinction
between the purely political polis of antiquity, which excludes the
private economy from the res publica, and the modern public sphere
with its rational-critical discourse about commodity exchange and
social labor in the political economy. At the same time, it
identifies the crises of seventeenth-century England and the Dutch
Republic as the origins of the new channels of public communication
used to constantly evaluate the role of state power as political
facilitator and regulator of an increasingly complex, dynamic, and
crisis-prone market economy.
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