The Public Sphere

Anders Molander is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Professions, Oslo Metropolitan University.

VOLUME 1: DISCOVERING THE PUBLIC SPHERE Part 1: Inventing the Public Sphere Speech to the Electors of Bristol - Edmund Burke An Answer to the Question: 'What Is Enlightenment?' - Immanuel Kant On Public Opinion - Alexander Hamilton On Public Opinion - Jacques Peuchet Excerpt from Critique of the Power of Judgment - Immanuel Kant Public Opinion - James Madison Excerpt from Toward Perpetual Peace - Immanuel Kant Excerpt from The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns - Benjamin Constant Excerpt from Elements of the Philosophy of Right - W.F. Hegel Excerpt from On Liberty - John Stuart Mill Part 2: 'Mass Society', Democracy and Public Opinion Excerpt from Critique of Public Opinion - Ferdinand Tonnies The Principles of Parliamentarism - Carl Schmitt Excerpts from The Phantom Public - Walter Lippmann Excerpt from The Public and Its Problems - John Dewey Excerpt from Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy - Joseph A. Schumpeter Part 3: The Rediscovery of the Public Sphere The Public and the Private Realm - Hannah Arendt On Judgment and Politics - Hannah Arendt The Publice Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article - J rgen Habermas The Scientization of Politics and Public Opinion - J rgen Habermas Introduction to Public Sphere and Experience - Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge The End of Public Culture - Richard Sennett Part 4: Debating the Public Sphere The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviours - Joshua Meyrowitz Societal Complexity and Public Opinion - Niklas Luhmann Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy - Nancy Fraser Further Reflections on the Public Sphere - J rgen Habermas The Public and the Private Sphere: A Feminist Reconsideration - Joan B. Landes Public Intimacies, Private Citizens: Inequalities and the Pluralization of Public Spheres - Ken Plummer VOLUME 2: THE POLITICAL PUBLIC SPHERE Part 1: The Public Sphere and Deliberative Democracy On Legitimacy and Political Deliberation - Bernard Manin Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy - Joshua Cohen Civil Society, Public Opinion, and Communicative Power - J rgen Habermas Three Normative Models of Democracy - J rgen Habermas The Sense of Reciprocity - Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson The Idea of Public Reason Revisited - John Rawls Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism? - Chantal Mouffe Is the Ideal of a Deliberative Democracy Coherent? - Cristina Lafont Part 2: The Political Public Sphere at Work: Public Opinion The Nature of Personal Influence - Paul Lazarsfeld, Bernard Berelson and Hazel Gaudet Democratic Theory and Public Opinion - Bernard Berelson Opinion Research and Publicness - Theodor W. Adorno The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media - Maxwell E. McCombs and Donald L. Shaw The Spiral of Silence: A Theory of Public Opinion - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann Public Opinion Does Not Exist - Pierre Bourdieu Part 3: The Political Public Sphere at Work: Deliberation Against Deliberation - Lynn M. Sanders Deliberation as Discussion - James D. Fearon Good Citizens and Bad History: Today's Political Ideals in Historical Perspective - Michael Schudson Measuring Publicity's Effect: Reconciling Empirical Research and Normative Theory - Simone Chambers Political Communication in Media Society: Does Democracy Still Enjoy an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research - J rgen Habermas The Surprising Failures of Deliberating Groups - Cass R. Sunstein Disaggregating Deliberation's Effects: An Experiment within a Deliberative Poll - Cynthia Farrar et al VOLUME 3: THE CULTURAL PUBLIC SPHERE Part 1: Aesthetics, Ethics, Politics Discourses and Institutions The Dialectic of the Aesthetic Power of Judgment - Immanuel Kant Letter to M. d'Alembe