After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere
by Nick Crossley (Editor), John Michael Roberts (Editor)
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"Contemporary debate about the public sphere has been dominated by discussion of Jurgen Habermas's seminal study, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. The contributors to this collection push forward Habermas's agenda by reflecting on current social processes and events, such as anti-corporate protests and the emergence of the Internet. They also consider alternative perspectives posed by thinkers such as Bakhtin, Bourdieu and Honneth. Combining work by established show more commentators and new researchers, After Habermas brings fresh perspectives and ideas to bear on debates about the public sphere."--Jacket. show lessTags
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In "Wild Publics and Grotesque Symposiums," Michael E. Gardner critiques Habermas's emphasis on rational discourse in the public sphere, drawing on Bakhtin, and questions whether we should value transparency of intentions and if we shouldn't look toward real speech in everyday life as models, allowing for a more "festive," "carnivalesque" public sphere.
In "Justice and Drama," Ken Hirschkop also critiques Habermas's conception of the public sphere, drawing on Bakhtin, in order to argue for a more 'dramatic" publicness (52).
In "Justice and Drama," Ken Hirschkop also critiques Habermas's conception of the public sphere, drawing on Bakhtin, in order to argue for a more 'dramatic" publicness (52).
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Nick Crossley is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK.
John Michael Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications at Brunei University, London. He has researched and written on the topics of free speech and the public sphere, voluntary activity, philosophy of social science, global political economy and the information society, and management discourse in the workplace.
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- Nonfiction, Sociology, Philosophy, Politics and Government, Literature Studies and Criticism, Sexuality and Gender Studies
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- 303.3 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes Coordination and control
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- HM585 .A44 — Social sciences Sociology (General) Sociology
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