translate English to German: Just as the advocates of the "liberal democratic fundamental order" would like to restrict the democratic public sphere to parliament, Habermas hypostatises a certain public space (of rational discussion) to the one public sphere. [34] But is not precisely the irreducible plurality of the public sphere - i. e. the absence of a rational or other super-public sphere, a meta-space - the real precondition that something like democracy is possible at all?
Damit wären wir wieder bei einer Öffentlichkeitskonzeption, die mit Ernesto Laclaus Vorstellung von öffentlichem Raum kompatibel wäre: "For me, a radically democratic society is one in which a plurality of public spaces constituted around specific issues and demands, and strictly autonomous of each other, instils in its members a civic sense which is a central ingredient of their identity as individuals.