Paperback, 301 pages
English language
Published Aug. 28, 1991 by The MIT Press.
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society (German: Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit. Untersuchungen zu einer Kategorie der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft) is a 1962 book by the philosopher Jürgen Habermas. It was translated into English in 1989 by Thomas Burger and Frederick Lawrence. An important contribution to modern understanding of democracy, it is notable for "transforming media studies into a hard-headed discipline."
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