Michael Hofmann is professor of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University.

This important and timely book brings out the centrality of the public sphere to Habermas's overall project and shows how and why he has recently returned to the topic with ever-growing urgency.

• Preface: The Social Media Transformation of the Public Sphere and the Crisis of Neoliberal DemocracyIntroduction: The Unique Significance of Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere for the Theory and Practice of Democratic DeliberationChapter 1: Structural Transformation’s Normative Theses about a Dissolution of Domination in the Bourgeois Public Sphere Chapter 2: Habermas’s Dialectical Use of Ideology Critique to Counterfactually Assert a Moment of Historical Credibility for the Bourgeois Ideal of the Public SphereChapter 3: Structural Transformation’s Cold War Origins: Habermas’s Defense of Kantian Rationality, Human Rights, and the EnlightenmentChapter 4: Participatory Democracy versus Political Manipulation: The Role of Habermas’s “Celebrated Coffee Houses” (Todd Gitlin) in the Modern Public Sphere Chapter 5: Understanding Habermas’s Public Sphere Concept by Dissolving its Monolithic Stylization: Structural Transformation’s Interpretation of a Sociological and Political Category with the Norms of Constitutional Theory and Intellectual History Chapter 6: Structural Transformation’s Tacit Model Case of the Bourgeois Public Sphere: The French Revolution, Kant’s “Unofficial” Philosophy of History, Condorcet Absolute Rationalism, and Schiller’s Expressive Subjectivism Chapter 7: The Achilles’ Heel of Schiller’s Moral Stage and Structural Transformation’s Moral Politics: A Dependency of Smith’s Political Economy and Kant’s Constitutional Law on Mandeville’s Moral Paradox of Bourgeois SocietyChapter 8: Habermas’s Unexplained Methodology: A Complex “Ideology-Critical Procedure”Chapter 9: The Result of Structural Transformation’s Dialectical Use of Schmitt’s “Civil War Topos” and Koselleck’s “Process of Criticism:” A Tension between Developmental History and Ideology-Critical ProcedureConclusion: Renewing the Human Rights Perspective in the Political Public Sphere

Michael Hofmann is professor of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University.

This important and timely book brings out the centrality of the public sphere to Habermas's overall project and shows how and why he has recently returned to the topic with ever-growing urgency.

• Preface: The Social Media Transformation of the Public Sphere and the Crisis of Neoliberal DemocracyIntroduction: The Unique Significance of Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere for the Theory and Practice of Democratic DeliberationChapter 1: Structural Transformation’s Normative Theses about a Dissolution of Domination in the Bourgeois Public Sphere Chapter 2: Habermas’s Dialectical Use of Ideology Critique to Counterfactually Assert a Moment of Historical Credibility for the Bourgeois Ideal of the Public SphereChapter 3: Structural Transformation’s Cold War Origins: Habermas’s Defense of Kantian Rationality, Human Rights, and the EnlightenmentChapter 4: Participatory Democracy versus Political Manipulation: The Role of Habermas’s “Celebrated Coffee Houses” (Todd Gitlin) in the Modern Public Sphere Chapter 5: Understanding Habermas’s Public Sphere Concept by Dissolving its Monolithic Stylization: Structural Transformation’s Interpretation of a Sociological and Political Category with the Norms of Constitutional Theory and Intellectual History Chapter 6: Structural Transformation’s Tacit Model Case of the Bourgeois Public Sphere: The French Revolution, Kant’s “Unofficial” Philosophy of History, Condorcet Absolute Rationalism, and Schiller’s Expressive Subjectivism Chapter 7: The Achilles’ Heel of Schiller’s Moral Stage and Structural Transformation’s Moral Politics: A Dependency of Smith’s Political Economy and Kant’s Constitutional Law on Mandeville’s Moral Paradox of Bourgeois SocietyChapter 8: Habermas’s Unexplained Methodology: A Complex “Ideology-Critical Procedure”Chapter 9: The Result of Structural Transformation’s Dialectical Use of Schmitt’s “Civil War Topos” and Koselleck’s “Process of Criticism:” A Tension between Developmental History and Ideology-Critical ProcedureConclusion: Renewing the Human Rights Perspective in the Political Public Sphere

Michael Hofmann is professor of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University.

This important and timely book brings out the centrality of the public sphere to Habermas's overall project and shows how and why he has recently returned to the topic with ever-growing urgency.

• Preface: The Social Media Transformation of the Public Sphere and the Crisis of Neoliberal DemocracyIntroduction: The Unique Significance of Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere for the Theory and Practice of Democratic DeliberationChapter 1: Structural Transformation’s Normative Theses about a Dissolution of Domination in the Bourgeois Public Sphere Chapter 2: Habermas’s Dialectical Use of Ideology Critique to Counterfactually Assert a Moment of Historical Credibility for the Bourgeois Ideal of the Public SphereChapter 3: Structural Transformation’s Cold War Origins: Habermas’s Defense of Kantian Rationality, Human Rights, and the EnlightenmentChapter 4: Participatory Democracy versus Political Manipulation: The Role of Habermas’s “Celebrated Coffee Houses” (Todd Gitlin) in the Modern Public Sphere Chapter 5: Understanding Habermas’s Public Sphere Concept by Dissolving its Monolithic Stylization: Structural Transformation’s Interpretation of a Sociological and Political Category with the Norms of Constitutional Theory and Intellectual History Chapter 6: Structural Transformation’s Tacit Model Case of the Bourgeois Public Sphere: The French Revolution, Kant’s “Unofficial” Philosophy of History, Condorcet Absolute Rationalism, and Schiller’s Expressive Subjectivism Chapter 7: The Achilles’ Heel of Schiller’s Moral Stage and Structural Transformation’s Moral Politics: A Dependency of Smith’s Political Economy and Kant’s Constitutional Law on Mandeville’s Moral Paradox of Bourgeois SocietyChapter 8: Habermas’s Unexplained Methodology: A Complex “Ideology-Critical Procedure”Chapter 9: The Result of Structural Transformation’s Dialectical Use of Schmitt’s “Civil War Topos” and Koselleck’s “Process of Criticism:” A Tension between Developmental History and Ideology-Critical ProcedureConclusion: Renewing the Human Rights Perspective in the Political Public Sphere