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Article: Parsing Habermas's "bourgeois public sphere".(Critical Essay)
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- Criticism
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- March 22, 2004
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ONGOING DEBATE OVER THE early history of the public sphere provides a good index of the fruitfulness of the category. When did it come into being? How inclusive was it? The very heat of controversy on local problems associated with the category of the public sphere seems to confirm widespread accord that the category itself has become indispensable to historical understanding. This distinction between local debates on the details and general agreement on the category may be illusory, however, since often enough debates seem to be fueled by fundamentally different views of what Habermas means by the public sphere. This being the case, the problem of chronology may best be ...
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