Hans-Jörg Trenz is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy.

"By a scholar with the rare gift of creatively handling both theorizations of the public sphere and empirical investigations of future, current or historical developments in democracy studies, this very readable and enlightening work is a must-read for intellectually and politically curious readers." Jostein Gripsrud, University of Bergen

• 1. Introduction: Vanishing Publics – The Erosion of Democracy and the Public Sphere2. The Legacy and the Future of the Public Sphere3. Public Sphere Dystopia: A Diagnosis4. Between Dystopia and Utopia: The Social and Political Field of Public Sphere Criticism5. Does All This Really Happen? The Experimental Setting of Public Sphere Resilience6. Conclusion: Beyond Post-democracy

Hans-Jörg Trenz is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy.

"By a scholar with the rare gift of creatively handling both theorizations of the public sphere and empirical investigations of future, current or historical developments in democracy studies, this very readable and enlightening work is a must-read for intellectually and politically curious readers." Jostein Gripsrud, University of Bergen

• 1. Introduction: Vanishing Publics – The Erosion of Democracy and the Public Sphere2. The Legacy and the Future of the Public Sphere3. Public Sphere Dystopia: A Diagnosis4. Between Dystopia and Utopia: The Social and Political Field of Public Sphere Criticism5. Does All This Really Happen? The Experimental Setting of Public Sphere Resilience6. Conclusion: Beyond Post-democracy

Hans-Jörg Trenz is Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at Scuola Normale Superiore in Italy.

"By a scholar with the rare gift of creatively handling both theorizations of the public sphere and empirical investigations of future, current or historical developments in democracy studies, this very readable and enlightening work is a must-read for intellectually and politically curious readers." Jostein Gripsrud, University of Bergen

• 1. Introduction: Vanishing Publics – The Erosion of Democracy and the Public Sphere2. The Legacy and the Future of the Public Sphere3. Public Sphere Dystopia: A Diagnosis4. Between Dystopia and Utopia: The Social and Political Field of Public Sphere Criticism5. Does All This Really Happen? The Experimental Setting of Public Sphere Resilience6. Conclusion: Beyond Post-democracy