In its political form, the existence of a public realm is the basis
of a shared relationship between rulers and ruled which makes
politics more than mere power or domination. How to construct and
maintain a public realm in the political sphere is, however, a
matter of especial dispute at the present day, due partly to the
increasing difficulty of making the distinction between public and
private spheres which has been the basis of Western liberal
democracy; partly to the tendency of public concerns to be
identified with economic interests, which transforms citizens into
consumers; partly to pressure for the acknowledgement of diversity
of every kind, which creates the danger of fragmenting the public
realm; and partly to globalization processes which have undermined
the traditional identification of the public realm with national
political institutions. Globalization has, in addition, raised the
question of whether there can be a supra-national public realm and,
more generally, of what form it is likely to assume in non-Western
cultures. These are amongst the fundamental contemporary issues
addressed by contributors to the present volume. This book was
published as a special issue of the Critical Review of
International, Social and Political Philosophy.
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