Before revision: History Describing the emergence of the public sphere in the 18th century, Habermas noted that the public realm, or sphere, originally was "coextensive with public authority", Translation from the original German, published 1962. while "the private sphere comprised civil society in the narrower sense, that is to say, the realm of commodity exchange and of social labor".Habermas 1989, p .30 .
After revision: History Describing the emergence of the public sphere in the 18th century, Habermas noted that the public realm, or sphere, originally was "coextensive with public authority", Translation from the original German, published 1962. while "the private sphere comprised civil society in the narrower sense, that is to say, the realm of commodity exchange and of social labor".Habermas 1989, p .