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Article: Television and the Public Sphere
- Article from:
- Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Autumn 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Television and the Public Sphere. Peter Dahlgren. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995. 176 pp. $65 hbk. $21.95 pbk.
Germany can be counted on to produce good beer, fast cars, and philosophers who are prolific writers.
One of those philosophers is Jurgen Habermas, professor of philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, who during the postwar years produced works (such as The Theory of Communicative Action and The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures) that spawned a Habermas school of thought in Europe and, relatively recently, the United States.
As a social scientist, Habermas's contributions have cut across discipline lines, and his theories are discussed and interpreted by ...