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Jun 23, 2022 · The public sphere is where democracy must show and prove itself in every respect (Klier, 1990, p. 23). Depending on the democratic theoretical position, however, normative expectations vary, and therefore so do the standards that relate to the mediating performances of the public sphere as a whole.
- Christian Nuernbergk
- nuernbergk@uni-trier.de
Habermas’ definition of a public sphere is the first and founding trigger to classification attempts of the formation of public opinions and the legitimisation of state and democracy in post-war Western societies.
- mwengenmeir
- 2014
The public sphere (German: Öffentlichkeit) is an area in social life where individuals can come together to freely discuss and identify societal problems, and through that discussion influence political action. A "Public" is "of or concerning the people as a whole."
Moreover, while the concept of the public sphere and democracy assume a liberal and populist celebration of diversity, tolerance, debate, and consensus, in actuality, the bourgeois public sphere was dominated by white, property-owning males.
In ideal terms, the public sphere is the source of public opinion needed to "legitimate authority in any functioning democracy" (Rutherford 18). In his later work, Habermas made a distinction between "lifeworld" and "system."
Nov 20, 2023 · On a very general level, the public sphere can be understood as a third space between the state and society. Across the fields of philosophy, political theory, social science and cultural studies, the public sphere is conceptualized as a medium of collective communication among (the) citizens.
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Sep 5, 2022 · The political public sphere is important for democracy, and it is changing – this is how the quintessence of Jürgen Habermas’s monumental study on The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1989) could be summarized in simple words.
