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Article: Women, the republic of letters, and the public sphere in the mid-seventeenth century.(Critical Essay)
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- Criticism
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- March 22, 2004
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THE PERIOD OF THE mid-seventeenth century has particular importance for two different kinds of critique of Habermas's narrative of the early modern public sphere. For some scholars, this narrative is empirically flawed because its presentation of the political public sphere as emerging in the last decade of the seventeenth century misses critical developments at the time of the English Revolution. (1) Insofar as this is the case, some explanations, if not necessarily excuses, are readily to hand. Habermas's panoptic view of the span from emergent to what then seemed late capitalism was necessarily limited in its source materials. The book first appeared in 1962, when ...