ISBN:
0745650597
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (2142 KB, 178 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Transnationalizing the Public Sphere
DDC:
305
Keywords:
Habermas, Jürgen
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Social structure
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Transnationalism
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Political sociology
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Is Habermas’s concept of the public sphere still relevant in an age of globalization, when the transnational flows of people and information have become increasingly intensive and when the nation-state can no longer be taken granted as the natural frame for social and political debate? This is the question posed with characteristic acuity by Nancy Fraser in her influential article ‘Transnationalizing the Public Sphere?’ Challenging careless uses of the term ‘global public sphere’, Fraser raises the debate about the nature and role of the public sphere in a global age to a new level. While drawing on the richness of Habermas’s conception and remaining faithful to the spirit of critical theory, Fraser thoroughly reconstructs the concepts of inclusion, legitimacy and efficacy for our globalizing times. This book includes Fraser’s original article as well as specially commissioned contributions that raise searching questions about the theoretical assumptions and empirical grounds of Fraser’s argument. They are concerned with the fundamental premises of Habermas’s development of the concept of the public sphere as a normative ideal in complex societies; the significance of the fact that the public sphere emerged in modern states that were also imperial; whether ‘scaling up’ to a global public sphere means giving up on local and national publics; the role of ‘counterpublics’ in developing alternative globalization; and what inclusion might possibly mean for a global public. Fraser responds to these questions in detail in an extended reply to her critics. An invaluable resource for students and scholars concerned with the role of the public sphere beyond the nation-state, this book will also be welcomed by anyone interested in globalization and democracy today. Nancy Fraser is Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science and Department Chair at the New School for Social Research. Kate Nash is Joint Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.
Description / Table of Contents:
Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; References; 1: Transnationalizing the Public Sphere; On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World; Classical Public-Sphere Theory and Its Radical Critique: Thematizing the Westphalian Frame; The Postnational Constellation: Problematizing the Westphalian Frame; Rethinking the Public Sphere - Yet Again; References; 2: What and Where is the Transnationalized Public Sphere?; Fraser's Formulation of the Problem with Existing Public-Sphere Theory; The Limits of Transnational Publicity
Description / Table of Contents:
From the Transnational Public Sphere to Transnationalized Public SpheresConclusion; References; 3: Towards Transnational Democratization?; Normative Legitimacy: The Public?; Efficacy as 'Usefulness'; Conclusion; References; 4: An Alternative Transnational Public Sphere?; On Anarchist Cosmopolitanism in Post-Westphalian Times; From a Post-Bourgeois to a Post-Westphalian Public Sphere; Global Civil-Society Activism as Subaltern Counterpublics; Conclusion; References; 5: Time, Politics, and Critique; Rethinking the 'When' Question; History and Critique; Thinking the Present
Description / Table of Contents:
From Legitimacy to EfficacyConclusion; References; 6: Dilemmas of Inclusion; The All-Affected Principle, the All-Subjected Principle, and Transnational Public Spheres; From All-Affected Interests to All-Subjected Persons; The Critique of the All-Affected Interests Principle; The All-Subjected Persons Principle; Conclusion; References; 7: Publicity, Subjection, Critique; A Reply to My Critics; Transnationalizing the Westphalian Frame?; Democratization by Network Power?; From Demos to Multitude?; A Postcolonial Challenge; Further Philosophical Reflections; Conclusion; References; Index
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