The Public Sphere
Subtitle: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam (Culture and Religion in International Relations)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781403974730
Subjects: Islam; Philosophy of religion; Religious social & pastoral thought & activity; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Religion, Politics & State; Political Science / International Relations; International Relations - General; Common good; Islam and state; Public interest
Description: "This book is a theory-informed, comparative and historical exploration of the notion of the public sphere within Western and Islamic traditions. It situates the emergence of the modern public sphere in a wider historical and theoretical context than usually done in conventional analyses. The work traces cross-cutting genealogies spanning conventional borders between tradition and modernity, and in particular between the Western and the Islamic world. This approach unsettles received, evolutionary views of the public sphere as an exclusive legacy of Western political cultures. The public sphere is finally reconceived as a complex platform for the modern cultivation of culturally diverse, competing, yet intersecting discourses."--Jacket.