• Corpus ID: 9614739

Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Democracy: A Critical Intervention

@inproceedings{Kellner2006HabermasTP,
  title={Habermas, the Public Sphere, and Democracy: A Critical Intervention},
  author={Douglas Kellner and Jurgen Habermas's},
  year={2006}
}

• D. Kellner, Jurgen Habermas's
• Published 2006
• History

Jurgen Habermas's The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is an immensely rich and influential book that has had major impact in a variety of disciplines. It has also received detailed critique and promoted extremely productive discussions of liberal democracy, civil society, public life, and social changes in the twentieth century, among other issues. Few books of the second half of the twentieth century have been so seriously discussed in so many different fields and continue, almost forty years after its initial publication in 1962, to generate such productive controversy and insight. While Habermas's thought took several crucial philosophical twists and turns after the publication of his first major book, he has himself provided detailed commentary on Structural Transformation in the 1990s and returned to issues of the public sphere and democratic theory in his monumental work Between Facts and Norms. Hence, concern with the public sphere and the necessary conditions for a genuine democracy can be seen as a central theme of Habermas's work that deserves respect and critical scrutiny.