Public deliberation and public culture
Subtitle: the writings of Bernhard Peters, 1993-2005
By: edited by Hartmut Wessler.
Contributors: Peters, Bernhard, 1949-2005.; Wessler, Hartmut, 1965-
Series: Transformations of the state
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Mass media -- Political aspects; Mass media -- Social aspects
Description: "In his work, German theorist Bernhard Peters (1949-2005) theoretically and empirically explored the factors facilitating and constraining deliberative public communication, and showed how public deliberation is embedded in the wider currents of public culture." "Available in English for the first time, this selection of Peters' writings offers an overview of his work in which he argued that, despite tendencies of sensationalization and commercialization, some mass media still provide a locus for political communication, the exchange of ideas and informed debate. Peters' work provides original insights on the prospects for a European, or even global, public sphere, and links public discourse to democracy, collective identity and political legitimacy."--Jacket.
Notes: Individual articles translated from the German by Keith Tribe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prefatory remarks / Jurgen Habermas; title: Study of the public sphere : Bernhard Peters' interest and contribution / Hartmut Wessler, Lutz Wingert; title: Law, state and the political public sphere as forms of social self-organisation; title: The meaning of the public sphere; title: On public deliberation and public culture; title: The functional capacity of contemporary public spheres; title: Contemporary journalism and its contribution to a discursive public sphere / B. Peters, T. Schultz, A. Wimmel; title: "Red biotechnology" in media debate / B. Peters, H. Wessler, M. Ecker-Ehrhardt, C. Dereje, M. Sindram; title: National and transnational public spheres; title: Segmented Europeanisation : trends and patterns in the transnationalisation of public spheres in Europe / M. Bruggemann, S. Stifft, K. Kleinen-von Konigslow, B. Peters, A. Wimmel; title: Public discourse, identity, and the problem of democratic legitimacy.