The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society » (1st Edition)

Jürgen Habermas is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. He was recently awarded the 2004 Kyoto Prize for Arts and Philosophy by the Inamori Foundation. The Kyoto Prize is an international award to honor those who have contributed significantly to the scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment of mankind.

This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period.

Part I. Preliminary Demarcation of a Type of Bourgeois Public Sphere.

Part II. Social Structures of the Public Sphere.

Part III. Political Functions of the Public Sphere.

Part IV. The Bourgeois Public Sphere: Idea and Ideology.

Part V. The Social-Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.

Part VI. The Transformation of the Public Sphere's Political Function.

Notes.

Index.