The structural transformation of the public sphere
Subtitle: an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society
By: Jürgen Habermas ; translated by Thomas Burger with the assistance of Frederick Lawrence.
Series: Studies in contemporary German social thought
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Sociology -- Methodology; Social structure; Public interest; Middle class; Political sociology
Description: This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolution of public opinion in democratic societies. -- Book cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [251]-298.
Translation of: Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit.
Includes index.