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Contents

Acknowledgements vi

Introduction 1
1 Excavations: The History of a Concept 3
The bourgeois public sphere 4
The fall of the bourgeois public sphere 14
Critical publicity and late capitalism 25
2 Discursive Testing: The Public Sphere and its Critics 29
Lessons from history 29
Equality and emancipation 34
Rationality and embodiment 48
3 Reconfigurations: The Public Sphere since Structural

Transformation 56
Scientism and politics 56
System, lifeworld and communicative action 62
The politics of the Other 71

4 Mediations: From the Coffee House to the Internet Café 89
The fall of the agora 90
A public sphere in bits? 106

5 Unfinished Projects: Refl exive Democracy 120
Refl exive agency 122
Risk and refl exivity 128
Revisiting the public sphere 133

Notes 142
Bibliography 157
Index 163

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